Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive

Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨throws_lemy@reddthat.com⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://windowsreport.com/microsoft-confirms-windows-11-bug-that-locks-users-out-of-the-c-drive/

KB5077181 was released about a month ago as part of the February Patch Tuesday rollout. When the update first arrived, users reported a wide range of problems, including boot loops, login errors, and installation issues.

Microsoft has now acknowledged another problem linked to the same update. Some affected users see the message “C:\ is not accessible – Access denied” when trying to open the system drive.

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Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
they are planning to roll out MS 12 eventually which is fully AI slop.

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- oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You mean Windows 12?
  
  Calling it that won’t be funny until 13 comes out.
  
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- Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Was false news.
  
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  - Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    But it could be true.
    
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fatalicus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
So probably not a Microsoft issue, but a Samsung issue, since Samsung share is the culprit?

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- GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You buy a laptop it works wonderfully and perfectly.
  
  Microslop pushes a sloppy update.
  
  Your laptop stops working.
  
  Who’s fault is it?
  
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  - fatalicus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    If the only laptops having the issues is the laptops that have Samsung share installed, why is it then Microsofts fault that an update broke something?
    
    Apperantly they changed something in the updated that made a bug in Samsung share appearent.
    
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lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I’m sick of it. I had 4 different projects with it this year at work. And we are paying them money for it…

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chunes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
As usual, the bug only affects a tiny subset of hardware and lemmy is pretending every windows computer got bricked

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- Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  its not about the number of effected devices/people. Its about it demonstrating the bigger more structural problems getting more obvious every time one of these happen.
  
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vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s a feature.

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TomMasz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Has the prediction market latched onto offering a line on Patch Tuesday yet?

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bridgeburner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Microsoft is a corporation that turns …

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- GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  *Microslop
  
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cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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- Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.
  
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  - Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    And it screams incompetence on his part if he actually thinks this isn’t a problem.
    
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  - cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.
    
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- aaa999@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  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
  
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- brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.
  
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  - cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.
    
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- Encephalotrocity@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  laughs in Linux
  
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- luluberlue@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.
  
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davetortoise@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Seems like quite an important drive to have access to. They should probably try to fix that. imo

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kreskin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Security to some level is important, but whatever idiot at msft sold exec on “user access control” as a standard service really effed windows hard. Security types have a role in the world, but a lot of them are authoritarian idiots. One of those idiots wrote this patch, and msft was so used to UAC problems in everything, they just let it on through during testing.

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