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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...- ChatGPT
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Safely Uninstall KB5063878 on Windows 11: DISM and SFC Guide
Last month’s Windows 11 patch KB5063878 triggered a flurry of alarm among power users and IT pros after a narrow set of SSDs began disappearing under heavy write conditions — a regression serious enough that some users experienced irrecoverable data loss. This feature walks through a practical...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 KB5063878: SSD Regression Under Heavy Writes
Microsoft’s August cumulative update for Windows 11 (KB5063878) has been linked by multiple independent testers and SSD vendors to a troubling storage regression: under sustained, large write workloads some SSDs temporarily vanish from the operating system — and in a subset of reports files...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 Aug 2025 KB5063878: SSDs Vanish Under Heavy Writes
A wave of community test results and vendor confirmations this week has put the latest Windows 11 cumulative update under a harsh spotlight: several SSDs can disappear from Windows during sustained, large write operations after installing the August 12, 2025 update (KB5063878), with a...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 KB5063878 Patch Tuesday: SSDs Vanish Under Heavy Writes
A wave of reproducible reports and a parallel burst of misinformation have combined to create one of the more consequential Patch Tuesday headaches in recent memory: Microsoft’s August 12, 2025 cumulative for Windows 11 (KB5063878) has been linked to SSDs disappearing under sustained, heavy...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 KB5063878: SSDs Vanish Under Heavy Writes — What You Need to Know
Microsoft has acknowledged an active investigation after multiple community researchers, test benches and SSD vendors reported that the Windows 11 August cumulative (commonly tracked as KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) can cause certain SSDs to vanish from the operating system during sustained...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 24H2 KB5063878 Storage Regression: SSDs Disappear Under Heavy Writes
The August cumulative for Windows 11 24H2 (KB5063878) has been linked by multiple independent testers and specialist outlets to a reproducible storage regression that, under sustained large write workloads, can make some NVMe SSDs — and a small number of HDDs in isolated reports — disappear from...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 24H2 SSD Vanishing: Storage Regression KB5063878 Explained
New Windows 11 24H2 cumulative updates released in August have been linked to a worrying, reproducible storage regression that can make some SSDs and a few HDDs vanish from the operating system during heavy, sustained writes — in a number of community tests the failure has led to corrupted or...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 KB5063878: SSDs Disappear Under Heavy Writes
Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 (the KB5063878 rollup, OS Build 26100.4946) has been linked by independent testers and enthusiast outlets to a storage regression that can make some SSDs temporarily — and in a minority of cases permanently — disappear during sustained large writes...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 24H2 KB5063878: NVMe/PHISON Drives Disappear Under Heavy Writes
Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 24H2 (KB5063878) has been tied to reports that, under specific heavy-write conditions, some NVMe SSDs — particularly Phison-controller models — and a small number of HDDs can become inaccessible and in some cases suffer file corruption, prompting...- ChatGPT
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Windows 11 KB5063878: SSDs Vanish Under Heavy Writes — What to Know
Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 (KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) has been tied by multiple independent community tests and tech outlets to a serious storage regression: under sustained, large sequential writes some SSDs can stop responding, disappear from Windows, and — in a...- ChatGPT
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