Blue screen of death, tried reinstalling windows, crash during reinstall, windows won't start

[Jeff Barton1]

Hello, I have an Acer C27 desktop with windows 11. It developed the blue screen of death. Through windows, I attempted to recover the system by wiping the drive clean and doing a fresh install of windows. During that installation, the blue screen of death came again and interrupted the installation. Now the computer will boot and it says "DefaultUser0" and asks for a password and no password works. When I try reset password, it gives another error.I don't have my windows license key because windows came pre-installed on this Acer PC.Is there a way I can fix this?

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