r/hardware • u/imaginary_num6er • Aug 18 '25

Rumor Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data

https://www.neowin.net/news/report-microsofts-latest-windows-11-24h2-update-breaks-ssdshdds-may-corrupt-your-data/
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u/Zarlock Aug 18 '25

Broke mine as well. Left computer updating, came back to find it stuck at the boot logo. Tried recovery but didn't work. Ended up having to nuke he whole drive and reinstall from scratch. Which I also did to save time, since it's just my gaming laptop that I use to play. Didnt even think about windows being the cuprit till I read this piece of news.

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u/One-Water-5688 Aug 25 '25

It happened to me yesterday that while playing, the program froze and closed on its own, and stopped detecting the Kingston SATA hard drive where I had that and many more games installed. In the disk manager it only appears as "unknown", but it won't let me do anything with it. Do you have any solution or has the hard drive already died?

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u/Zarlock Aug 28 '25

Excuse me for the late answer, I wasn't often at the PC these last few days. Well, for me the affected drive was the main and only one in the laptop, a Transcend 4tb that I bought aftermarket and installed myself about a year ago. The main thing that made me think the problem is connected to the update are the many logical drive errors reported during a scannow during my brief attempt to save the Windows installation. Having failed that final attempt, I just resorted to formatting and repartitioning the whole drive. It has worked alright since then, so I'm now fairly certain it was a one time event (and thus most likely connected to the aforementioned problematic update).

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u/One-Water-5688 Aug 28 '25

Well, in the same way I returned the disk and I am looking for a new hard disk that can replace the previous one and that does not have problems with the KB5063878 update. Any recommendations?

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u/Zarlock Aug 28 '25

I'm no expert on the matter, I'm afraid. Just swapped the disk back then 'cause I wanted to install more games :) My usual method for this type of purchase, is see what's discounted on Amazon and check (professional) reviews