Windows Update May Be Corrupting Some Drives

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[Grogan]

Microsoft must think they are pretty clever, those controllers are a back end thing, not exposed to the OS. They must be doing something really hinkey.

I'm glad I don't have to worry about Microsoft updates breaking my shit and undoing configuration. My dad's laptop has Windows 11, I should check it, but he just does web, email, documents etc. nothing that would be moving large amounts of data.

I heard about another update that broke recovery options in Windows 10 and Windows 11, such that restore, reset, repair etc. weren't working. There's an update buried in an optional "quality update" rollup that fixes it. I got it on their Windows 10 computer, but dad's win11 laptop wasn't showing it available.

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JayzTwoCents ran into this himself:

[Grogan]

So it's Windows drivers corrupting registers. Boot time power behaviour is a good explanation why some people have their drives show up after the blue screen reboot, and some people don't if they don't get cleared.

Microsoft keeping silent about this also causes people to chase their tails (he said he had all kinds of people writing to him, troubleshooting drivers and hardware settings etc.) Also, because it was part of a rollup that was also a "feature update", it couldn't be uninstalled. Those cumulative updates are asinine.