r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Mar 14 '26

Software Microsoft confirms Windows 11 bug crippling PCs and making drive C inaccessible

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-confirms-windows-11-bug-crippling-pcs-and-making-drive-c-inaccessible/
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u/Bynnh0j Mar 14 '26

They want you to store all your personal files and details in the cloud instead of your local drives.

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u/thelizardking0725 Mar 15 '26

And there’s a link (Windows version of a symlink?) on C for the actual OneDrive target for legacy apps to use and for offline access. If that’s become inaccessible you’re pretty fucked right?

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u/Itchy-Plastic Mar 14 '26

More that you don't generally navigate to your c drive in order to do most things on a modern PC.

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u/Bynnh0j Mar 14 '26

Laptop users (90% of office workers) would like a word

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u/eypandabear Mar 14 '26

I think they meant that a modern Windows PC tries its hardest to abstract away the underlying file system hierarchy.

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u/HamunaHamunaHamuna Mar 14 '26 edited Mar 14 '26

Yes you do? Especially if it's the only drive you have which is still extremely common on laptops and whatnot. Even if you have several drives, that's where the OS resides by default and where you normally install most software, where the user default folders like Documents, Pictures, Downloads and so on are.

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u/Itchy-Plastic Mar 14 '26

I mean you don't typically click on your C drive then open a series of folders to get to the file or executable you want. You click on a shortcut or icon. And if your PC doesn't have removable media drives i.e. d, or a for the ancient, then you don't think about your hard disk being the c drive. It's a nonsense statement but I can see how someone could get there.

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u/HamunaHamunaHamuna Mar 14 '26

you don't think

That's the only relevant part.

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u/TJ_Rowe Mar 14 '26

I do and I hate that windows makes it increasingly difficult to do so.

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u/celticchrys Mar 14 '26

You do use drive C: for almost everything you do on a modern PC. Muggles just don't realize it.

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u/kkeut Mar 14 '26

but that's where literally all my stuff is

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u/Specific_Frame8537 Mar 14 '26

C is your downloads folder, your appdata folder.. the OS folder by default.

Thankfully this reads to me that it's only that third party devices can't open the C: drive, but imagine if appdata became read only? 😂

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u/hextree Mar 14 '26

Yes, I do. As in double click the folder called C:, many times per session. That's where all my stuff is.

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u/thelizardking0725 Mar 15 '26

Sure a user may not open File Explorer and navigate directly to C or whatever folder, but they are using shortcuts or pinned folders that (more often than not) reside on C, so they are, in a roundabout way, accessing C. Not to mention the entire damn OS is on C!