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Windows TCO: Microsoft Breaks Hardware Through Windows Updates
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Latest backdoored Windows 11 security patch might be breaking SSDs under heavy workloads — Phison investigating reports of disappearing drives following file transfers, including some that cannot be recovered after a reboot
Windows users are reporting SSD issues following the latest backdoored Windows 11 security patch.
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The Register UK ☛ Out-of-band update arrives to clean up Windows reset and recovery mess
Microsoft has moved swiftly to remove the bullet it fired into its own foot with the August 2025 Security Update reset and recovery bug.
The company has released out-of-band patches for Windows 10 and Windows 11 to deal with the problem in which attempts to reset and recover a device fail following the installation of the August update. The patch is optional – users who haven't encountered the issue don't need to install it.