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Windows 10 and chkdsk issues?

Posted on December 27th, 2020 at 21:00 Tracey Capen Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

PATCH WATCH

By Susan Bradley

Yikes! Say it isn’t so!

Günter Born reports that a small number of Windows users whose systems have solid-state drives ran into serious trouble with the classic chkdsk tool after installing KB 4592438, the December cumulative update for Win10 20H2. When they kicked off chkdsk c: /f, their systems crashed with a blue screen of death. The problem appears to be limited to machines with SSDs.

Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.51.0 (2020-12-28).

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