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  1. Engineering Firmware Causes SSD Failures Linked to Windows 11 KB5063878, Phison Confirms

    Phison has publicly acknowledged and replicated a key finding first raised by the PCDIY community: a wave of disappearing and allegedly “bricked” NVMe SSDs linked in timing to Windows 11’s August cumulative update (KB5063878) appears to have been driven, in at least some test cases, by...
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    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Windows News
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    Most of my data disappeared after restarting. Windows 10 corruption or ransomware?

    Hi... I've tried many things offered by the net and AI but to no avail. I've been at it for well over 5 hours so I'm not one of those peeps asking for help before trying a gazillion things! Basically I went to restart my machine and it offered me an option to restart or restart with...
    • oceanboy
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    • corruptedfiles databackup dataloss disksnapshot driveclone externaldrive filecorruption filecorruptionrecovery fileexport filerecovery shadowcopies shadowexplorer systembackup systemfiles systemrestore vssadmin windowsrecovery windowstroubleshooting windowsupdates
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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    Folders' contents disappeared

    I was saving pics for years in my Downloads, in folders separated by years and each year by month, so I had a bunch of folders and sub-folders with pics and videos saved throughout the years. Today, while I was away content from all folders disappeared but named folder are still there just all...
    • brod298
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    • antivirusscan backuprecovery dataloss filecorruption filedisappearence fileindexer filerecovery folderempty hiddenfiles malware recentchanges suddendeletion systemcrash unexpectedshutdown virus
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support

  4. VIDEO What Happens If You Don't Shut Down Your Computer Properly?

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    • whoosh
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    • computer dataloss improper performance restart safety shutdown youtube
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: The Water Cooler

  5. Windows 10 Malware, Ransomware and Bit-locker Security.

    Hi. I recently lost 100,000 personal pictures and a lot of music I wrote for many years. I lost it to a ransomware, with a DOCM extension. I looked online and it said it was new and the encryption was done repeatedly up to 10 times deep. I happened to have ALL my backup usb hard drives attached...
    • Shayla Blackthorn
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    • antivirus backup bitlocker cybersecurity dataloss datamanagement digitalassets driveencryption encryption fileprotection filerecovery itsupport malware personaldata ransomware readonly security systemsafety usb westerndigital
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support

  6. Solid-state drives lose data if left without power for just a few days

    Storage. It's not a sexy topic. But everyone uses it in some way or another. You have iPhones, you have computers. Everyone knows how important a person's data is. But it doesn't just "disappear." Or does it? New research suggests that newer solid-state hard drives, which are faster and offer...
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    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Security
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    Windows 7 Imminent hardware failure according to SMART

    This day was a lot of excitement for me since my main harddrive did not allow me to boot. Here is my attempt to give you an image of what happened and where I need your help: - booting pc as usual: splash screen of bios/mainboard - booting gets stuck while loading windows drivers - random...
    • TRSS
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    • badsectors booting chkdsk corruption dataloss datarecovery diskutility errors failure filesystem harddrive hardware livecd masterfiletable ntfs partition smart troubleshooting ubuntu windows
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Windows Hardware

  8. Windows 7 it's a conspiracy! (windows deleting folders)

    ok, so i listen to music.... A LOT of music. the problem i'm having is that every month or so, a folder (i have it set up as c:\music\artist\album) disappears. (c:\example\example wouldn't be so bad, but it's always the higher c:\example so it deletes ALL albums!) this is insanely frustrating...
    • paradive
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    • backup configuration conspiracy dataloss deletion desktop filerecovery filesystem folder help maintenance music permissions security solutions troubleshooting userissues userpermissions windows windowsissues
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support