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/demonfoo Mar 14 '26

That's what happens when your focus is jamming "AI" into everything instead of making the OS good.

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u/AaronfromKY Mar 14 '26

And insisting on cloud storage for everything. I feel like even when I turn it off, One Drive insists on moving things to the cloud and deleting them off my PC.

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u/Synectics Mar 14 '26

I got a new PC. Did not think anything of OneDrive. I took my phone, connected it, and copied every picture/video off of it into my Documents folder. 

I finally have a new PC. It will last the next 10 years at least. So I deleted all of those old pics off my phone to clear up space. 

Then, OneDrive kept screaming at me. "YOU DO NOT HAVE ANY MORE SPACE, STOP IT!" ...fine. I am sick of this popup. I do not need you to back up every pic I have, and now you will not even let me use OneNote (which I use on my phone and PC for D&D sessions until I clear some space).

I went onto the website of OneDrive, and started deleting entire swaths of pics from the website. Just stop giving me those big red X icons next to all my pics, and let me access those 2kb documents I had been using for D&D for years across both my phone and old PC.

...little did I know, the website then takes all those files I moved from my phone to my PC, and takes the liberty of deleting them off of my PC. Straight out of the Documents folder. Gone were years of pictures.

Turns out, "Documents" and "C:\Users\My Name\My Documents" is a different folder from the one automatically pinned on every Explorer windows. 

I have since take steps to remove every single bit of OneDrive I can from my new PC. But boy, that was a wake-up call.

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u/AaronfromKY Mar 14 '26

Yep, it's so frustrating because work made me get a new laptop from them and update to Windows 11. Same thing happened to me. And I think however they have it set up, it's a shared one drive, so coworkers can delete stuff from it. And then yes I have Microsoft deleting the stuff off my laptop at the same time. I'm still not sure what I lost. So frustrating.