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Choose between "From current system" or "From non-booting system" if you have connected an old hard drive as a secondary disk.

Click the recover button to pull the key from the registry.

Because it needed to modify system files that are locked while Windows is running, it was typically deployed via a bootable floppy disk or CD (Live environment). ⚠️ Security & Risk Assessment High Malware Risk:

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