Microsoft says it’s trying into stories that sure Western Digital SSDs are inflicting hassle for customers of Home windows 11 24H2 on some units.
The issue was first famous by WindowsLatest.com, and a prolonged thread within the Western Digital boards paperwork the makes an attempt customers have made to cope with it.
A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed to The Register that it was conscious of the complaints and is investigating. On the time of writing, the corporate hasn’t added the glitch to the checklist of identified points with Home windows 11 24H2.
It definitely seems to be one thing to do with Home windows 11 24H2 since customers have reported that completely working techniques quickly turned hopelessly borked with Blue Display screen of Loss of life errors after putting in the replace.
Though Microsoft has remained silent on whether or not it should apply a block to affected {hardware} as the difficulty is probed, Western Digital has admitted that – sure – it is not simply customers’ creativeness. There’s a drawback. And the excellent news is that the corporate has launched a patch to cope with it.
The replace “Addresses a difficulty with the HMB (Host Reminiscence Buffer) for sure fashions of Western Digital and SanDisk SSDs, the place the drive might trigger a BSOD on Home windows 11 24H2.” The affected NVMe SSDs are WD_BLACK SN770, WD_BLACK SN770M, WD Blue SN580, WD Blue SN5000, and SanDisk Excessive M.2. All are 2TB units.
Western Digital additionally cautioned, “Microsoft might stop techniques with affected fashions from upgrading to Home windows 11 24H2 till the firmware is up to date.”
Issues are beginning to stack up a little bit for Home windows 11 24H2. After a rollout that seemed to be going nicely, bugs started to crawl out of the working system’s woodwork. Earlier this week, the corporate admitted it managed to introduce a reporting error into the Disk Cleanup software, which, whereas not as critical as a Blue Display screen of Loss of life, rattled the arrogance of some customers.
Home windows 11 24H2 shipped with a number of identified hitches involving fingerprint sensors and compatibility with Intel Good Sound Know-how drivers. Since then, Microsoft has added the wrong area reporting from the Disk Cleanup software.
Customers eying the up to date working system with some nervous can be forgiven for questioning, “What subsequent?” ®
