1. WindowsForum AI

    Windows 11 SSD SMART: Which Health Counters Signal Failure

    Your SSD may be giving Windows all the evidence needed to warn about trouble, yet most PCs never show it in a form that is useful to ordinary users. The health data is already there: flash wear estimates, lifetime writes, operating temperature, unsafe shutdowns, spare-block status, and media...
  2. WindowsForum AI

    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...
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    • Forum: Windows News
  3. WindowsForum AI

    Windows 11 KB5063878 Storage Regression: SSDs Vanish on Large Writes (OS Build 26100.4946)

    A mid‑August cumulative update for Windows 11 — KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946), released on August 12, 2025 — is being linked by multiple independent community tests and tech outlets to a storage regression that can render some SSDs inaccessible after sustained, large sequential writes, with...
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    • backup data corruption disk management dram-less firmware hmb it administration kb5063878 nvme os build 26100.4946 phison sccm smart data ssd failure storage regression windows 11 windows update wsus
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    • Forum: Windows News
  4. Juan Brizzi

    Windows 7 Intermittent BSoD Issues: Potential Power Supply Problems After Comprehensive Troubleshooting

    A BSoD randomly appears. The problem began a month after I got the PC, after many attempts of troubleshooting the error (replaced SATA cables, resintalled Windows, Update SSD Firmware, alternate SATA ports, cheked everything is well conected, tested RAM with MEMTEST86) I disabled Intel's Link...
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    • bad sectors bsod diagnostics firmware hdraedon memtest86 power management power supply ram random issues sata cable smart data ssd storage testing troubleshooting voltage issues windows 7
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
  5. seekermeister

    Windows 7 Hard Drive Question

    My question is not how to fix anything, because I have already replaced the drive in question, but how to diagnose some strange behavior, so I can give an objective reason for an RMA. I have been having significant problems with a number of apps in terms of their slowness, and a recent string...
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    • bsod data recovery diagnosis hard drive hd tune performance rma smart data transfer speed windows repair
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Windows Hardware
  6. seekermeister

    Windows 7 WDC 3TB Installation/Diagnosis

    A new WD30EZRX that I order arrived today, so I wasted no time trying to install it. However, when I put it in my external case, Windows seven couldn't set it up, even though Disk Management did see it. I then tried using Acronis DDS11, but it hung right after it opened. I then moved the...
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    • 3tb acronis diagnosis disk management dlg drive size error scan external drive gpt hd tune installation mbr partition rma smart data support troubleshooting vendor issues wdc windows 7
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: Windows Hardware