i put my computer stuff on the part of the computer where the stuff goes, losing access to the stuff on the computer would be a problem yes
Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Can you still use the computer? Other than the home folder (or the user folder), I think it’s fine if regular users go a week without touching their C drive until Microslop fixes it (which they will, inside like a week).
I use Windows at work, and it’s fine. I do use the home/user folder just because it’s there and it’s how everything’s set up, but there is no other drive to use instead. If I were using it at home, especially if I had a laptop, I’d want the home drive to be on an SSD I could move between machines… maybe. But, I use Macs at home.
aaa999@lemmy.world 1 day ago
brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
from the article
The issue appears mainly on Samsung laptops and can prevent users from accessing files or launching applications.
Having a computer that cannot launch applications, let alone access files, is basically the same as not having a working computer.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
But it can boot into Windows, which is also on the C drive? So it’s not locking users out of the C drive, it’s locking users out of parts of the C drive.
luluberlue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
The boot process isn’t an user process, Windows would still be able to use the C:/ drive for itself, for every other user software though, that’s another story…
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
So only the user process is locked out of the C drive, not the boot/system. Fortunately, the way Windows 10/11 works by default, if you sign into a Microslop account, it backs all that stuff up to OneDrive. At least your documents. And no one’s saying it’s not bad, it just seems like most affected individuals will be able to go about most of their day. I have a Mac, so I
don’t need to worry about any of thishave separate issues to worry about.
Encephalotrocity@feddit.online 1 day ago
laughs in Linux
luluberlue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Hardly.
The system drive (very usually C:/) is where the Users folder lies by default (and you can’t move it anyway IIRC), folder that contains stuff like the Appdata folder where… well… apps keeps their data like settings, history, backups… Most software will try to access it and would meet an “access denied” error.
This is also the default location for all the documents, music, videos, pictures,[…] folders (but you can change those though)
Basicaly you’d be limited to the “portable” versions of softwares located on other drives, which is not quite the norm on Windows.
Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I…. I can’t believe you are defending (or more accurately saying “it’s not that bad”) losing access to the root of your hard drive. It screams incompetence on Miroslop’s part.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And it screams incompetence on his part if he actually thinks this isn’t a problem.
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Well I’m obviously not, I’m just saying, if the system wouldn’t boot at all, they’d lead with that. For most users, it won’t matter. For the more technical users, we’re either using Linux or macOS.