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Windows 11 KB5063878 Update Triggers NVMe SSD Disappearances — Here’s What’s Happening
A wave of reports across enthusiast forums and hardware labs confirms that the Windows 11 August 2025 cumulative update, KB5063878, is causing certain NVMe SSDs to vanish during prolonged write...
Microsoft UEFI Update Locks Surface Snapdragon X Devices at 50% Charge with No Rollback
A recent UEFI firmware update from Microsoft has left many Snapdragon X-powered Surface Pro and Surface Laptop devices stuck at a 50% charge limit, with the user-facing toggle to disable the battery...
Windows 11 KB5063878 Triggers Drive Disappearances During Heavy I/O, Pushing Some to Consider Linux
The August 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11, KB5063878 (OS Build 26100.4946), is causing solid-state drives and some hard disks to vanish from the system during sustained write operations,...
Microsoft’s KB5063878 Update for Windows 11 24H2 Triggers NVMe/SSD Disappearances and Data Corruption
Microsoft’s latest cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2, released on August 12, 2025, is causing certain NVMe SSDs — particularly those with Phison controllers — to vanish from the system...
Windows 11 Update KB5063878 Makes SSDs Disappear Under Heavy Write Loads
Installing Microsoft’s August cumulative update for Windows 11 version 24H2 is causing certain SSDs to vanish and become inaccessible during heavy write operations, according to a growing number of...
Google Officially Deprecates Project Campfire, Ending Native Windows Dual-Boot on Chromebooks
Google has officially shelved its ambitious Project Campfire, the internal initiative aimed at enabling select Chromebooks to natively dual-boot Microsoft Windows 10. References to the feature, known...
August Windows 11 Update KB5063878 Sparks SSD Failure Warnings After 50GB+ Transfers
Microsoft’s August 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11, KB5063878, is causing a serious and reproducible storage regression that leaves some NVMe SSDs unresponsive and can corrupt data. Multiple...
Free Windows 10 Security Extensions Defuse the Urgency to Upgrade to Windows 11
Microsoft quietly rewrote the rules of the Windows upgrade cycle when it opened a free path to Extended Security Updates for consumers. Instead of facing a hard October 14, 2025 cutoff with no safety...
KB5063878: Windows 11 Update Makes NVMe SSDs Vanish Under Heavy Write Load
Microsoft’s August cumulative update for Windows 11, KB5063878, is under fire from a growing chorus of users who report that their NVMe SSDs suddenly disappear during large file transfers. The...
Phison-Based NVMe SSDs Disappear After Windows 11 KB5063878 Update, Users Warn of Data Corruption
Microsoft’s August 12, 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2 (KB5063878) has been linked to a severe storage regression that can cause NVMe SSDs to suddenly disconnect during sustained write...
Windows 11 24H2 Update KB5063878 Causing NVMe Drives to Fail During Heavy Writes, Corrupting Data
Microsoft’s August 2025 cumulative update for Windows 11 24H2 (KB5063878, OS Build 26100.4946) has been tied to a severe storage regression that can cause NVMe SSDs to disappear during heavy write...
Firmware Tweaks Could Save Millions of PCs from Windows 11 Upgrade Dead End
Microsoft’s Windows 10 end-of-life date of October 14, 2025, is fast approaching, and the company’s one-year Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for consumers only postpones the inevitable....