It time to revisit the need to install those patch Tuesday update as soon as they appear. Although there are those who would say, patching those zero-day vulnerabilities is a good reason to do so, I will give you several, right here, right now that says, that is BS.
This one is as serious as it gets folks so PLEASE read this article, DO NOT skim through it. KB5063878 is causing SSD and HDD’s to disappear from the OS rendering them not recoverable. This is the one reason I scream as loud as possible for MS to be rid of their damned Insider program. Using it for quality and testing is the main reason they find themselves having to constantly deal with these issues so often. ALL these issues below are from ONE set of updates this month alone.
Stay vigilant and use good judgement. But for the sake of making a mistake, ASK a professional when you have the slightest thought you should not install. You won’t regret it.
A probable cause for these hard drive problems might have finally been isolated, and so far there is no concrete evidence that the Windows 11 v24H2 KB5063878 update released on 12-Aug-2025 with the August 2025 Patch Tuesday updates is responsible.
Most social media posts reports about this SSD problem refer back to a video posted by YouTuber JayzTwoCents showing their Crucial T500 drive (with a Phison E25 controller) failing after Microsoft’s August 2025 Windows 11 security updates that needed a power cycle to come back to life. According to that The Verge article:
“In a new video responding to Phison’s claims, JayzTwoCents reveals he was using a beta motherboard BIOS version, and upgrading the BIOS version fixed his SSD issues.”
Kudos to Susan Bradley for posting about these latest findings in their 12-Sep-2025 article Beware of beta firmware in the AskWoody forum and for warning AskWoody readers to “stay away from betas, pre-release, and all other ‘bleeding edge’ sort of software”.