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

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Oh?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Windows_11

This was an issue that appeared when writing heavy files to disks (50gb+), so people that werent doing it were safe. And don't worry, its a matter of when LOL. I was a windows "virgin" until one day my system drive appeared encrypted and locked by bitlocker when I never activated it, nor had any recovery key.

I know people who were affected when a Windows 10 update just straight up deleted all personal files in 2020.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2020/02/19/new-windows-10-update-starts-causing-serious-problems/

"You mean if I delete data, then it's gone? No matter what platform?"

Updating windows is not a command that deletes your data

rm -rf is way more difficult than doing literally nothing, yes.

Linux treats users like a person and Windows treats users like children. Be the person Linux trusts you to be.

There is a difference between telling your computer to delete something and the computer complying, and doing a windows update only to find it's corrupted your data or straight up killed your disk.

I'm not going to get angry when I tell my PC to delete a file and it actually does it.

Not with GNU rm, no.

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Should do the trick. (Obviously don’t try it unless you know what you are doing and know what may happen when it hits your EFI variables.)

I love how people immediately downvoted you to hell for this lmfao.

Like yeah, the guys on the comments: only people use rm -rf, absolutely no scripts use it at all. Something like motherfucking STEAM absolutely didn't remove people's data that one time. And hey, their so beloved --no-preserve-root didn't prevent that from happening. :D

I love and currently use Linux, but my GOD some Linux people are annoying.

If something like del C:\*.* somehow ended up deleting your D: drive too, we wouldn't stop hearing the end of it, but here on Linux systems, it is a perfectly normal thing, and people somehow DEFEND this atrocity lmfao.

rm shouldn't exist at its current form. Full stop.

Maybe ? I know R/W speeds used to be a lot slower in Windows than Linux but I thought they fixed that a few years ago.

Yeah but luckily by the mid 80s it was completely digitized and just there in the basement for reference.

The original Ghostbusters.

It depends on the use case. For incremental changes and validation of hypotheses in an uncertain or new product Agile is great. It allows for fast valuation and fast pivoting. I would not recommend Agile for systems that are mostly known and need a big upgrade, that's not what its for.

Agile became a buzzword and shouldn't have been implemented as widespread as it has. It does have its use cases though.

Take that deniers!

Yeah I know they're based on LLMs, but they're more adapted to translation, right?

As someone who's played a few LLM translated games, it is in fact not good at it. There's a lot of contextual hints that get lost and slang terms tend to confuse it. It does make it close enough where a human that doesn't speak/read the original language could easily finish the translation though or still make it through the game.

I want my Babbelfish.

Good luck playing any of the biggest, most played games in the world without it.

When my wife's grandparents had to get a new computer they got upset about the new windows interface and the fact their old games didn't work, so I set them up with Linux and a DE that resembled XP (it's what they were familiar with), and I was able to get most of their games going.

They used it without issue until they died.

Depends on her needs. If she uses it for Facebook, no problem, since I'll be admining her system anyways

Why not ? I suppose that as long as a browser (and whatever else she need) is working, my grandmother would not need much more. And I could also install a windows11 theme on KDE, if I really want to. A icon is a icon

And in the end I think that my grandmother would be able to mantain neither a window machine, so I don't see the problem.

figma

I suppose, but reading the article, it seems this was related to a windows defender update. In other words the anti-virus became malware, again.

Huh, sounds to me like bad security and data integrity policies/practices from whatever company, probably not very well run places to work for.

Wow, with a mentality like that, you're a perfect fit for medical school.

Well yes, but actually this is a security update

And I’m sure you’ll blame Microsoft/windows when things don’t work as expected and you get strange errors because you disabled core features using dodgy software that you don’t understand but think you don’t need them.

Meh - people are creatures of habit. To quote a family member "I'm too old to learn a new operating system!" Any change, even over to Mac OS, is rejected by most Windows users. Even when 99.9% of what they do is in a web browser.

I see. Well the SSD was used and few years old. Some Samsung SSD from a OEM build. I did run SMART tests on it like year ago and it was ok/healthy.

Time to fill it with linux isos and seed them with torrentz until it breaks completely.

where is the user error? is this user error with us in the room?

Unix unity. Linux 💜 Mac 💜 BSD

Thanks I guess? Surely Mac and Linux users can be friends or at least allies against Windows. Linux comes from UNIX which macOS is based on so they’re very similar, only one is FOSS — which I suppose is the point — and the other is not. But another commonality — Macs and PCs can both run Linux.

How does Apple's profitability being a little less than it used to be (they're still insanely profitable) imply that it's a "sinking ship"?

I'm a Linux user as well, but use macOS at work and it's fine.