When you run the format command in Command Prompt to format a drive on your Windows 11 or Windows 10 computer, the format operation may fail or be unable to complete and output the message Bad sectors ...

Microsoft has found no link between the August 2025 KB5063878 security update and customer reports of failure and data corruption issues affecting solid-state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drives (HDDs) ...

Earlier this month, we reported on a potentially fatal issue for SSDs that could be breaking drives and corrupting user data. The issue was apparently a side-effect of buggy Windows 11 KB5063878 and ...

“Format” as a word in computers is very popular, and a well-known word among computer users. We all have done that, especially with USB drives. That said, what people are sometimes afraid of is when ...

Both Microsoft and Phison couldn’t recreate issues reported on social media.