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Earlier this month, Microsoft released the August 2025 security update for Windows 10 and 11. Shortly after, a rather concerning report emerged about Windows updates breaking SSDs and corrupting data.

A new Windows 11 security update is reportedly causing some gaming SSDs to fail. That's according to new reports online, which suggest that, following the installation of the KB5063878 security update ...

Windows 11 June 2026 Update is causing boot failures (BSODs or BitLocker Recovery) on some PCs, and breasks OneDrive in File ...

New Windows 11 24H2 updates released this month have caused problems for some SSD and HDD drives. This has been linked to the KB5063878 security update and the KB5062660 preview update, both of which ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Earlier this month, reports began to emerge on social media that a pair of Windows 11 security updates (KB5063878 and KB5062660) were causing issues with ...

Microsoft released Windows 11 version 24H2 security update KB5063878 on August 12, 2025. It notably fixed delays signing into new Windows 11 devices, caused by "certain preinstalled packages," but it ...

Microsoft has finally responded to the rumors and grumblings that accuse Windows 11 update KB5063878 of cutting off access to SSDs. Under certain circumstances, Windows will no longer display an ...

Recap: Reports suggest that a Windows 11 security update released in early August may be the cause of HDD and SSD failures during large data transfers. However, the extent of the issue remains unclear ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. "We are addressing the falsified document through appropriate legal processes," Phison's Director of Technical Marketing Chris Ramseyer writes in a ...

Microsoft is seeking further information from customers who reported failure and data corruption issues affecting their solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drives (HDDs) after installing the ...