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Microsoft says its August Windows 11 security update (KB5063878) is not behind the recent wave of reports alleging SSDs and HDDs have been rendered inaccessible or corrupted, but the episode has exposed gaps in forensic clarity and left many users mistrustful of a conclusion drawn without a...

Microsoft’s latest public update on the mid‑August patch storm is straightforward: after investigation, the company says the August 2025 cumulative rollup did not cause a widespread failure mode that “breaks” SSDs, but the episode still exposes fragile cross‑stack dependencies and persistent...

Last week’s viral panic about a Windows 11 update “bricking” SSDs has been louder than the underlying evidence — but it also exposed real, repeatable failure patterns that deserve careful attention from users and IT teams. Microsoft and Phison, the SSD controller vendor most frequently named in...

Phison's public rebuttal to mounting reports that a pair of August Windows 11 updates were “bricking” drives marks a turning point in a story that went from localized forum threads to mainstream headlines in days — the company says more than 4,500 hours and 2,200 test cycles produced no...

Phison says its labs found no evidence that the Windows 11 24H2 cumulative update (KB5063878) or the related preview (KB5062660) will “brick” SSDs — a finding that calmed some headlines but left owners, data‑recovery specialists and IT managers with unresolved questions about a narrow...

The recent Windows 11 servicing wave that included security updates KB5063878 and the related preview KB5062660 ignited a flurry of alarm when hobbyist testers and everyday users reported NVMe SSDs disappearing — in some cases permanently — during large sustained writes, and much of the early...

Windows 11’s August servicing wave briefly looked like a storage disaster: community testers reported NVMe drives disappearing mid-write after installing security updates KB5063878 and KB5062660, and many fingers pointed at SSDs using Phison controllers. After an industry investigation...

Phison’s latest test summary puts the disputed SSD failures tied to Windows 11 updates into a new, uneasy middle ground: vendors and Microsoft say they cannot reproduce a widespread “bricking” problem, while a small but alarming set of user reports continues to describe drives disappearing and...

Phison says its lab work could not reproduce the Windows 11 SSD corruption reports that circulated after the August cumulative updates — but the episode exposes how fragile modern storage stacks can be when OS updates and controller firmware collide, and why backups, staged rollouts, and vendor...

Phison’s latest public stance changes the tone of what started as a panic: after industry-wide reports that a mid‑August Windows 11 cumulative update could cause NVMe SSDs to disappear during long writes, Phison says its internal testing — described as extensive — was unable to reproduce the...

Phison has confirmed it is investigating reports that a mid‑August Windows 11 cumulative update can trigger SSD instability — drives disappearing from Windows during sustained, heavy writes — and vendors, independent testers and Microsoft are coordinating forensic work while users are warned to...

Phison's latest public posture on the Windows 11 SSD scare shifts the narrative from an alleged vendor-level "bricking" spree to a coordinated investigation, but the episode leaves important questions about testing transparency, firmware distribution, and how quickly platform vendors communicate...

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...

Windows 11 can now attempt to repair itself automatically after repeated boot failures using a new cloud-aware feature called Quick Machine Recovery (QMR) — a Best-Effort, WinRE-based remediation pipeline Microsoft built as part of its Windows Resiliency Initiative and which is rolling out into...

Within days of Microsoft’s August 2025 Patch Tuesday, a cluster of independent testers and community posts began documenting a worrying pattern: after installing the Windows 11 24H2 cumulative update (tracked as KB5063878, with a related preview package KB5062660), some NVMe SSDs momentarily or...

Microsoft and several SSD vendors are investigating reports that a recent Windows 11 cumulative update can cause some solid-state drives to stop responding or “vanish” from the operating system during sustained, large file writes — a failure mode that can leave files corrupted or, in a minority...

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...

Microsoft and SSD vendors have opened an investigation after multiple independent testers and users reported that the August 12, 2025 Windows 11 cumulative update (KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) can cause some NVMe and SATA drives to stop responding, vanish from the operating system, and — in a...

Phison has warned customers that a circulated document purporting to come from the company — and claiming the recent Windows 11 security updates were uniquely breaking Phison-based SSDs — is a falsified communication, and the controller vendor says it is pursuing appropriate legal action while...

Phison has publicly acknowledged the storage failures linked to Microsoft’s August 2025 Windows 11 cumulative updates (identified as KB5063878 and related KB5062660) and says it is investigating the reports with industry partners while controllers that “may have been affected” are under review...