Have only had my Win11 up and running for almost 3 weeks now and it is very disappointing to see Update KB5063878 causing this chaos.
It appears to occur with long sustained, high data rate disc writes. User case being downloading and installing STEAM games on a Gamers PC, or copying your huge video library to an SSD drive.
It installed on my system 2025/8/13, and I get an error trying to uninstall it. So I guess I wait for the fix, which still hasn't appeared a week later. Assume part of the reason for this original problem, and the slow fix is Microsoft having sacked developers and replaced them with crap AI.
Now, I don't think anything I do in general use of my PC at the moment, recording midi and 2 guitar parts, some digital painting and scanning pencil sketches actually would cause the bug to occur. Rendering 56 second animations and Reaper Mixes is very CPU bound, but does not generating long high speed disc writes. I used my PC normally for a week after the bug was installed and I only found out about it from the above video yesterday.
Lots on Reddit about it now. Affected SSD controllers are Phison, InnoGrit, Maxio (Sandisk, Corsair, Kioxia). Writing 50GB at full speed to an SSD can cause it to be unrecoverably corrupted.
I installed CrystalDiscInfo as recommended, one of those "adverts everywhere disaster" download sites, and my system has a KINGSTON unit:
But there is no indication that this drive would not be affected by the bug. It is an industry wide issue.
I made a boot DVD and took a full backup to a portable HDD 2025/8/9, before the update, just after I had installed just about all my tools and data from my previous system, so I expect I can recover if something was to happen.
One of the things in this KB5063878 update is changing the certificates expiry for safeboot from 2026. So that means the requirement to get Win11 in the first place means MS can now stop a PC from booting at some date in the future, set by Microsoft. Don't like what that allows.
And the news Intel isn't in great financial shape, after years of CEOs from the finance world focusing on stock buy backs instead of using less money on keeping up in semiconductor technology comes as no shock. Assume this whole forced "security cpu feature" required in Windows 11 was Intel inspired too. 😡
Enshittification continues... 😒
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