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    Accidentally wiped Windows 10 from my hard drive ?


    Hi.I should preface that I'm not at all worried about any data loss that may arise from this situation, as I backed up my data externally beforehand.So I recently bought a second-hand PC, running Windows 10. The thing was full of bloatware, so I went for the nuclear option of trying to reset Windows. Unfortunately, it wouldn't let me, saying something like "could not find the recovery environment", but that's not relevant now, as you'll soon see.I created an installation media using a spare USB drive, to try and remedy the issue. I managed to boot into said drive's Windows setup. However, for

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