Microsoft has not found any link between August 2025 KB5063878 security update and solid-state drive (SSDs) and hard disk drives affecting the hard disk drive (HDDs) and has not found any link between customer reports of failure and data corruption issues.
Redmund told Bleepingcomputer last week that it is known about users reporting SSD failures after installing this month’s Windows 11 24H2 security update.
Later Service alert Viewed by Bleepingcomputer, Redmund said it was unable to reproduce the issue on the up-to-date system and began collecting user reports with additional details from the affected people.
“After a thorough investigation, Microsoft has found no connection between the types of August 2025 Windows security updates and the types of hard drive failures reported on social media,” Microsoft said in an update for service warning this week.
“As usual, we continue to monitor the response after releasing every Windows update, and will investigate any future reports.”
The company has also worked with storage device partners to re -introduce the issue, but said that neither telemetry nor internal tests have revealed this month’s Windows 11 24H2 security update and revealed the increase in disc failures or file corruption.
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The issue was first reported by Japanese users, who experienced SSD issues during the operation of heavy writing (such as large files or several files to write together) to drive) which were more than 60% over 60% on devices with this month’s Windows 11 24H 2 security updates.
Other Has also faced the same issue Corsair Force Mp600, Maxio SSD, Sandisk Extreme Pro, Kioxia Exceria Plus G4, Kioxia M.2, and other drives on the system with other drives and other drives with other drives.
According to the reports of the affected users, while some affected drives were revived after restarting the computer, the rest remained inaccessible even after the reboot.
A spokesperson of Nand Comptroller Manufacturer Phison on Wednesday told bleepingcomputer that the company was “working with Microsoft to solve the issue.”
The spokesperson said, “We understand the disintegration that this may cause the industry stakeholders and immediately connect.
As long as the root cause behind this issue is found and addressed, Windows 11 users with hard drives who are more than 60% are advised to avoid downloading, copying or writing large files (tens of gigabytes).
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