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Microsoft’s August cumulative (KB5063878) for Windows 11 24H2 has been linked by multiple independent testers and industry observers to a storage regression that can make some NVMe SSDs disappear during heavy writes — sometimes temporarily, sometimes with irrecoverable damage — and the safest...

Microsoft has quietly pushed an out‑of‑band emergency update to repair a regression in its August update cycle that broke Windows’ built‑in recovery and reinstall tools — the very features users and IT teams rely on as a last resort to refresh, reimage, or wipe devices. The fixes (published as...

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...

Microsoft quietly pushed an emergency out‑of‑band update after an August security rollup left some Windows 10 and Windows 11 PCs unable to complete “Reset my PC,” cloud recovery, or MDM RemoteWipe operations — the fix is published as KB5066189 for Windows 11 (with companion OOB packages for...

Microsoft pushed emergency, out‑of‑band updates on 19 August 2025 after its regular 12 August Patch Tuesday rollups caused Windows’ built‑in reset and recovery flows to abort or roll back, leaving some users and managed fleets unable to complete “Reset this PC,” the cloud “Fix problems using...

Microsoft has confirmed an emergency out‑of‑band (OOB) Windows update after August’s Patch Tuesday rollup caused built‑in recovery tools — Reset this PC, the cloud reimage flow Fix problems using Windows Update, and MDM‑initiated RemoteWipe CSP — to fail on multiple client branches, and...

Microsoft pushed an emergency, out‑of‑band cumulative update on August 19, 2025 to repair a high‑impact regression that broke Windows’ built‑in reset and recovery flows — a failure that left some users and IT operations teams unable to run “Reset this PC,” the cloud‑reinstall Fix problems using...

Microsoft pushed an emergency, out‑of‑band patch on August 19, 2025 to repair a serious regression introduced by its August Patch Tuesday rollups that could prevent Windows’ built‑in recovery flows — Reset this PC, the Fix problems using Windows Update cloud reimage, and certain RemoteWipe...

Microsoft pushed emergency out‑of‑band updates on August 19, 2025, to repair a critical regression that prevented Windows’ built‑in reset and recovery tools from completing — a problem introduced by the August 12, 2025 Patch Tuesday security rollup that caused attempted “Reset this PC” and cloud...

Microsoft has issued an emergency out‑of‑band update to repair a high‑impact regression introduced by the August Patch Tuesday rollup that left Windows’ built‑in reset and recovery tools unable to complete on many client devices. id‑August Microsoft shipped its regular Patch Tuesday cumulative...

Microsoft has confirmed that August’s Patch Tuesday rollup introduced a regression that broke Windows’ built‑in recovery flows — including Reset this PC, the cloud-based Fix problems using Windows Update, and management‑initiated RemoteWipe — and shipped out-of-band emergency fixes days later to...

Microsoft’s August cumulative for Windows 11 (KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) has been linked by multiple community tests and specialist outlets to a narrow but severe storage regression in which some NVMe SSDs can suddenly become unresponsive or disappear during sustained, large writes — a...

Microsoft has issued emergency out‑of‑band updates after a routine August Patch Tuesday rollup left built‑in recovery paths — including Reset this PC, the cloud‑based Fix problems using Windows Update, and management‑initiated RemoteWipe — unable to complete on a range of consumer and enterprise...

Microsoft's August Patch Tuesday set off a chain reaction: the security update that fixed scores of vulnerabilities also broke Windows' own recovery tools for many users, and Microsoft was forced to ship out-of-band (OOB) emergency patches to undo the damage. The recovery failure — which could...

Microsoft’s August cumulative update has sidelined one of Windows’ most important safety nets: Reset and recovery flows that let users refresh, reinstall, or remotely wipe machines now fail on multiple client builds after the Patch Tuesday rollup, and Microsoft has shipped emergency out‑of‑band...

India’s national cybersecurity agency has escalated an urgent warning about a wave of high‑severity Microsoft vulnerabilities that together pose significant risk to consumers, enterprises, and cloud customers — the advisory links Microsoft’s August security updates (including a publicly...

Microsoft released an out‑of‑band (OOB) fix on August 19, 2025 that restores Windows’ Reset and cloud recovery workflows for devices on the 22621/22631 servicing families (Windows 11 22H2 and 23H2) after an August security cumulative caused those flows to fail; the update, published as KB5066189...

Microsoft released an out‑of‑band (OOB) update on August 19, 2025 — KB5066189 for Windows 11 builds 22621.5771 and 22631.5771 — that restores broken reset and recovery flows introduced by the Patch Tuesday rollups earlier this month, and administrators and home users should treat this patch as a...

Microsoft’s August Patch Tuesday has introduced a serious operational regression: on several supported Windows branches the built‑in Reset and recovery workflows can fail outright after installing the August 12, 2025 security updates, leaving users unable to complete “Reset this PC,” the new...

Microsoft has confirmed that the August Patch Tuesday cumulative updates introduced a regression that can break Windows’ built‑in reset and recovery flows on a wide range of supported client releases, and an out‑of‑band (OOB) emergency patch is being prepared to fix the problem before the next...