A sudden wave of reports last month that solid‑state drives were vanishing from both File Explorer and UEFI/BIOS left Windows 11 users alarmed — but the truth, based on community forensics and vendor testing, is more complicated than a simple “bad Windows update” narrative. Background / Overview...
data recovery
disk management
enterprise it
firmware
forensics
kb5063878
nvme
phison
rma
ssd
ssd failure
storage
telemetry
uefi
vendortesting
windows 11
windows update
Microsoft has concluded its investigation into the mid‑August reports that a recent Windows 11 security rollup (commonly tracked as KB5063878) “bricked” or corrupted some SSDs, saying it found no reproducible link between the update and the wave of drive disappearances — a position echoed by SSD...
Microsoft’s audit of the August Windows 11 cumulative update has closed one chapter of an unusually noisy storage scare, but it has left behind a tangle of reproducible community tests, partial vendor confirmations, and unanswered forensic questions that IT teams and power users should still...
backup
data loss
data recovery
disk issues
enterprise it
firmware
forensics
heavy-writes
hmb
host memory buffer
innogrit
kb5063878
microsoft investigation
nvme
nvme ssd
partially full drives
patch
phison
sata
ssd failure
staged rollout
storage controllers
storage reliability
telemetry
troubleshooting
vendortesting
whea_uncorrectable_error
windows 11
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...
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...
backup
controller bugs
cross-stack
data loss
diagnostics
edge case
feedback hub
field reports
firmware
firmware integrity
heavy-writes
i/o workload
innogrit
kb5062660
kb5063878
nvme
patch tuesday 2025
phison
reproducibility
risk mitigation
rma
solid state drive
ssd
storage
storage firmware
telemetry
thermals
user data backup
vendortesting
windows 11
windows servicing
windows update
Microsoft's latest Windows 11 update brings a long‑awaited fix for muffled Bluetooth headset audio: support for Bluetooth LE Audio's super‑wideband stereo, letting game audio remain high‑fidelity while voice chat or calls run at a much higher sample rate than the old Hands‑Free Profile allowed...