Global IT outages due to Crowdstrike got the whole world shook up (The FAA has grounded flights from Delta, United and AA)

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There is a workaround to fix a machine that does not boot up. I haven't tested this myself since I am not impacted.

  1. Boot Windows into Safe Mode or Recovery Environment
  2. Navigate to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike directory
  3. Locate the file matching "C-00000291*.sys", and delete it.
  4. Boot the host normally.
 

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There is a workaround to fix a machine that does not boot up. I haven't tested this myself since I am not impacted.

  1. Boot Windows into Safe Mode or Recovery Environment
  2. Navigate to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike directory
  3. Locate the file matching "C-00000291*.sys", and delete it.
  4. Boot the host normally.
I read on Reddit some companies have 50K+ machines down. You can't perform this fix remotely. Someone will have to apply the fix to all these machines manually.
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