The system cannot find the path specified

Question

I am trying to calculate sha1 hash for some of the files from location %system%\\drivers\\ using C#. I know files are at the exact location but when i use

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Answer 1

As others have mentioned, this is the file system redirector at work. The workaround is to replace system32 with sysnative in the filepath.

This was driving me bonkers too, and it took too much work to find the simple workaround. I kept landing on pages with advanced scripting and complicated, obscure tangentially-related solutions. So I thought I'd share the "easy mode".