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If you are fixing a modern PC (Windows 10/11), we highly recommend downloading Hiren’s BootCD PE (Pre-installation Environment) instead. It is the official community successor based on Windows 10 PE and supports modern hardware. [Link available at the bottom of this post]. Overwrites the Windows SAM file, blanking out the