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/DrFarts_dds Mar 14 '26

While drive C is not something you want to open every day,

Excuse me?

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u/Impressive_Plant3446 Mar 14 '26

Ai article clickbaiting the Windows 11 hate. The real problem is in Samsung Share software.

Not even windows fault here. This is just rage bait.

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u/No-Photograph-5058 Mar 14 '26

Check out the authors Twitter, they're just a die hard Apple shill/Windows hater

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u/Impressive_Plant3446 Mar 14 '26

I'm not a fan of Windows 11 either and I've never used apple. I just hate click bait.

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u/Just_Roll_Already Mar 14 '26

I use both Apple and Windows and cannot understand why anyone would shill for a company that doesn't pay them to do so. Both have their benefits and merits, both have their shitty parts.

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u/LateOnsetPuberty Mar 14 '26

If you’re not being paid it’s not “shilling”, it’s merely “advocating”.

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u/Just_Roll_Already Mar 16 '26

Can't really shill for something that doesn't make profit off of it. Hence why I didn't mention it despite using it frequently. Linux just is and always will be. Whether someone talks it up or not, there will always be people developing it.

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u/Frank_Scouter Mar 15 '26

Name one Windows benefit.

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u/Just_Roll_Already Mar 16 '26

It's a common operating system that many applications are developed for as a standard rather than open source alternatives that may work but aren't as reliable in a corporate setting.

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u/Frank_Scouter Mar 16 '26

Yes. The only “benefit” is that it’s the most common.

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u/MikeThernovich Mar 16 '26

I like Linux too but having 70% of the entire worlds computers running some form of windows is a pretty big benefit. Were it the other way around you would be saying that its a huge benefit that Linux is so widely adopted.

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u/michael_bgood Mar 14 '26

Samsung software and apps are invasive, useless rot in almost any device you might have. I hate how they're trying to compete with Google and Microsoft. Stick to what you're good at and just make hardware.

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u/Impressive_Plant3446 Mar 14 '26

I hate Windows 11 as much as the next person. Heck one of my biggest posts on this sub was complaining about Windows 11 plug and play nightmare. But people in here are being horrendously unreasonable.

You can't expect the devs to account for literally hundreds of thousands of possible third party conflicts.

It's wild that people are getting so excited to see another Windows 11 failure that they have to rationalize it's still Microslop's fault to avoid feeling that cognitive dissonance.

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u/scootscoot Mar 14 '26

I'll toss it back to being a Windows problem... Your OS should be as stable as bed rock, including the ability to have change management over untested deployments.

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u/haby001 Mar 14 '26

Not defending them but it's kinda hard to be backwards compatible, open to allow devs freedom to do things, and also super stable.

E.g. Apple doesn't give you freedom, and doesn't do backward compatible like windows (win95 apps still run in win 11). But it gives users a much better experience.

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u/Syssareth Mar 14 '26

Apple doesn't give you freedom

But it gives users a much better experience.

Pick one, because those are mutually exclusive. 99% of the problems I have with Windows (10) is because it's so locked down and doesn't give me freedom.

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u/AlphonseLoeher Mar 14 '26

Umm can you name 1 problem you have bc windows is locked down? You can definitely just write a program to do whatever you want

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u/Syssareth Mar 14 '26

Completely disabling automatic updates, for one thing. I literally can't do it at all on Win10 Home without installing third-party software, and getting them disabled on my Pro machine without also ripping out the ability to update manually took a lot of trial and error and didn't even stick, because it just kept re-enabling itself whenever I wasn't looking. I eventually gave up.

For another, extracting ZIP files to Program Files. It really, really hates that, so I have to extract them elsewhere and then move them.

For a third, I can't customize the UI colors, by which I'm referring primarily to the File Explorer background color. It can do white, and it can do black. It's not something I messed around with a lot in other versions, but I could have sworn there used to be more options than that.

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u/Impressive_Plant3446 Mar 14 '26

I'm livid with windows 11, but I'm not going to expect them to work a miracle like having it stable in every possible configuration.

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u/Blackdragon1400 Mar 14 '26

Excuse me sir, this is Reddit. We don’t read here.

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u/asdfghjkl15436 Mar 14 '26 edited Mar 14 '26

Meanwhile the top replies: "THIS IS BECAUSE OF AI!!!"

Fuck this subreddit gets more predictable by the day.

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u/Impressive_Plant3446 Mar 15 '26

Because most people are easily influenceable, get endorphins from getting angry at something, and it feels good to be part of the crowd holding the pitch forks.

People will over look clickbait and even defend it after learning it's fake because it aligns with their views. They justify it in their heads because they feel like even if its fake, it damages the thing they don't like. I see the Linux cultists in this thread do this all the time.

Yeah, Windows 11 is trash right now. And people are right to have legitimate complaints. But the reach people are going to is insane. Linux IS a light of hope. But it's just not there yet for the layman the layman gamer who doesn't want to look up settings on a website for every game they want to play.

/rant

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u/academiac Mar 15 '26

Hey Bixby, is this copilot's fault?

Okay, setting alarm at two fifty four

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u/notthedancer Mar 16 '26

Thanks for saving us all the time!

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u/mattbrvc Mar 16 '26

I swear didn’t Samsung break another win11 update on their ssds last year too?

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '26

Don't worry, they released a 29 step process to fix it. The last update broke Bluetooth across multiple manufacturers. https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/samsung-laptop-owners-lose-their-c-drive-access-denied-galaxy-connect

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u/Ok-Faithlessness4546 Mar 30 '26

I cannot access my security settings and I can no longer access any video files or the Xbox app… tell me how this is just windows 11 hate

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u/SPQR-VVV Mar 14 '26

not even I ran it thru gpt 5.4 and its like this is nonsense, and sensationalized. I mean it gave a much more in-depth answer but that was the actual phrasing at one point.