{"id":603,"date":"2025-08-23T08:54:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T06:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/it4home.dk\/?p=603"},"modified":"2025-08-23T09:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T07:14:10","slug":"windows-11-update-kb5063878-why-you-should-remove-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/it4home.dk\/index.php\/2025\/08\/23\/windows-11-update-kb5063878-why-you-should-remove-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows 11 update KB5063878 \u2013 why you should remove it"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"https:\/\/it4home.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" ><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/it4home.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/it4home.dk\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft\u2019s August 2025 update <strong>KB5063878<\/strong> for Windows 11 has quickly gained a bad reputation. Reports from users worldwide confirm that this patch can cause <strong>serious SSD and HDD issues<\/strong>, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Drives disappearing completely during large file transfers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Partitions suddenly showing up as <strong>RAW<\/strong> and unreadable<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Potential <strong>data corruption<\/strong> after heavy workloads<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sources like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/pc-components\/ssds\/latest-windows-11-security-patch-might-be-breaking-ssds-under-heavy-workloads-users-report-disappearing-drives-following-file-transfers-including-some-that-cannot-be-recovered-after-a-reboot\">Tom\u2019s Hardware<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.windowslatest.com\/2025\/08\/20\/microsoft-is-investigating-windows-11-kb5063878-ssd-data-corruption-failure-issue\/\">Windows Latest<\/a> confirm that Microsoft and SSD makers are now investigating the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What you should do<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Uninstall KB5063878<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Open <em>Settings \u2192 Windows Update \u2192 Update history \u2192 Uninstall updates<\/em> and remove it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Or run this in an elevated Command Prompt: <code>wusa \/uninstall \/kb:5063878 \/quiet \/norestart<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Pause Updates<\/strong><br>To prevent the update from returning, go to <em>Windows Update<\/em> and set a <strong>5-week pause<\/strong>. This gives Microsoft time to issue a fixed patch.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Stay Safe<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Keep backups of important data.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Avoid large SSD transfers (&gt;50 GB) until Microsoft resolves the bug.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Removing <strong>KB5063878<\/strong> is currently the safest choice if you rely on your SSD for daily work. Pausing updates for a few weeks ensures your system stays stable until a corrected update arrives.<br><br>The problem is <strong>not limited to external drives<\/strong> &#8211; it also affects <strong>internal boot NVMe SSDs<\/strong>. If your system disk is NVMe, it could become unstable after installing KB5063878.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes the best update is no update at all &#8211; at least until Microsoft fixes it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Knud ;O)<br><br>PS. A safer choise in the future is changing to Linux ;O))<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s August 2025 update KB5063878 for Windows 11 has quickly gained a bad reputation. Reports from users worldwide confirm that this patch can cause serious SSD and HDD issues, including: Sources like Tom\u2019s Hardware&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/it4home.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/it4home.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/it4home.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it4home.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it4home.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/it4home.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"https:\/\/it4home.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions\/609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it4home.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/it4home.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it4home.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/it4home.dk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}