Microsoft has found no link between the August 2025 KB5063878 security update and customer reports of failure and data corruption issues affecting solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drives (HDDs) ...

“The drive is completely unresponsive, it shows up as unallocated space, but I can't initialize it to be ... users have not encountered any problems. We tried to replicate the issue but have not ...

Having recovery and/or SSD problems after recent Windows updates? You’re not alone. Recovery issue is already resolved; SSD problems have been trickier to diagnose.

Last week there were reports of SSD failures due to the latest Windows update. SSDs with Silicon Motion controllers are not said to be affected.