Newest Home windows replace is borking storage drives for some customers

If there’s anybody you’ll be able to belief to maintain your copy of Home windows up and working, it needs to be Microsoft, proper? That’s true… till it isn’t. Some current updates are inflicting extreme stability points for Home windows 11, and the most recent one may simply make your solid-state drive (SSD) or laborious drive (HDD) unreadable, although fortunately it appears to be an remoted challenge.

Based on Japanese consumer Necoru_cat on Twitter/X, the Microsoft Defender replace issued final week for Home windows 11 and Home windows 10 launched a brand new bug that’s inflicting some storage drives to be inaccessible. That features drives which can be internet hosting Home windows itself, successfully borking your complete PC. Neowin reviews that it’s a difficulty particularly for the most recent 24H2 variations of Home windows 11 (KB5063878, KB5063875) and Home windows 10 (KB5063709, KB5063877, KB5063871, KB5063889).

A number of different customers are having the identical challenge, fearful that their storage drives are damaged. Neowin thinks that it is likely to be an issue with some drives which have a particular NAND controller from provider Phison, displaying a mixture of points, a few of which could be mounted routinely with a reboot and a few of which might’t.

Reportedly, this bug is being triggered by heavy write periods to NVMe SSDs and laborious drives, probably leading to file corruption. Rebooting may assist, however the issue appears to be persistent within the small quantity of customers it’s affecting, apparently solely displaying up when writing or backing up 50 gigabytes or extra. Sadly it hasn’t been narrowed all the way down to a particular vary of drive fashions affected, and which is likely to be saved by a firmware replace. The same challenge was resolved in that approach final 12 months.