The reporter’s own “test” proves this is caused by faulty drives unable to sustain the speed they advertise, not Windows.
this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2025
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Can't they just offer access to your data back at a discounted rate compared to what they charge their data partners for it?
“We looked around and could not find other reports resembling such situations. The problem has been reported by a Japanese PC builder and enthusiast and some of the comments on the thread seem to indicate that others there may be experiencing similar issues. So it could be a region-specific thing too”
How's that vibe coding working out for ya?
Didn't they proudly say how much of windows is AI generated slop code a few months ago?
I think it has more to do with the new atomic update and their now-usual not-testing aproach.
Is this an automatic update that I can stop ?
The company managed to resolve the issue later and has deployed a fix.
Linux users: "See what we mean?"
Windows users: "La la la! I can't hear you! Losing my data is clearly better than having to learn something new!"
I have literally never had one of these things happen to me before. I'm pretty sure people just make them up for clicks at this point.
Bah, each time I want to do the manual upgrade from 23h2 I have to postpone it again due to some stupid bug or annoying feature that makes me reconsider doing it.
Again? I swear I saw this a month or two ago.
If I was a librarian and my card catalog started exploding, I would have a fit. Those are not easy to put together.
Yeah but luckily by the mid 80s it was completely digitized and just there in the basement for reference.
That's not my data.
"You have destroyed the very thing you swore to become" also works.
They're using Grok to translate?
They probably used copilot to write the code. It compiled so they shipped it.
Take that deniers!
It got me!. I turn crypto services off and it keeps turning back on. What a pain in the ass!