News Win11's august update and some WD SSDs may be problematic

[mikeymikec]

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I found this when searching for information about a bizarre issue I'm experiencing with a new Lenovo Yoga 6 (AMD 4000 series) laptop. It clean-installed 23H2 without issue, updated to 24H2 without issue, then I noticed that "optimisation isn't available" for the WD SN530 SSD, told it to do a full disk check, it started the disk check at the very least but never booted Windows again after that (perpetual loading circle). Event log shows multiple ntfs errors regarding the MFT, no amount of chkdsk /f /v /r has helped and the recovery environment refuses to roll back either the quality or feature updates, and system restore fails saying that a disk check needs doing.

My issue may have nothing to do with the story, but it certainly is an interesting coincidence. Lenovo claims that the laptop is compatible with Win11 (it came with Win10) and didn't have any useful suggestions apart from a clean install. I'm going with Win10 for the moment purely out of curiosity to check the defrag utility. - edit - Win10 and defrag seems to be fine, I'm going to let it play with Win10 updates for a bit to see whether it stumbles.