New Windows 11 Bug Breaks Samsung PCs, Blocking Access To C: Drive (pcworld.com)
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- News link: https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/03/18/2020255/new-windows-11-bug-breaks-samsung-pcs-blocking-access-to-c-drive
- Source link: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3089657/new-windows-11-bug-breaks-samsung-pcs-blocking-access-to-c-drive.html
> Users of Samsung PCs are reporting the [2]inability to access the C: drive after the Windows 11 February update. The bug seems to be in connection with the Samsung Galaxy Connect app, which allows Samsung phones and tablets to connect to Windows machines. [A previous stable version of the app has been re-released to prevent this problem from spreading.] This [3]parody explains the situation with humor.
The issue stems from update [4]KB5077181 and is impacting Samsung PCs running Windows 11 25H2 or 24H2. Microsoft and Samsung have [5]confirmed the issue and [6]published a workaround , but as PCWorld notes, it will take some time. The workaround "requires removing the Samsung application, then asking Windows to repair the drive permissions and assigning a new owner, then restoring the Windows default permissions, including patching in some custom code that Microsoft wrote."
[1] https://slashdot.org/~UnknowingFool
[2] https://www.pcworld.com/article/3089657/new-windows-11-bug-breaks-samsung-pcs-blocking-access-to-c-drive.html
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R3LyFf8XOo
[4] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/february-10-2026-kb5077181-os-builds-26200-7840-and-26100-7840-f0fa9e54-a22a-4a06-96b6-bf5b2aded506
[5] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/status-windows-11-25h2#3801msgdesc&xcust=2-1-3089657-1-0-0-0-0&sref=https://www.pcworld.com/article/3089657/new-windows-11-bug-breaks-samsung-pcs-blocking-access-to-c-drive.html
[6] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/recovery-steps-samsung-galaxy-connect-or-samsung-continuity-service-might-cause-loss-of-access-to-the-c-drive-48c242aa-242a-4ddd-a9ad-98ea25fc04c1
pfft (Score:3)
Who needs a C: drive? Everything's in the cloud!
Re:pfft (Score:4, Funny)
Can't have "Cloud" without "C" *taps head*
Re:pfft (Score:4, Funny)
Meh, I keep mine on a floppies, and swap between aloud and bloud.
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What, you're not booting from OneDrive?
Slop through and through (Score:2)
It appears Microsoft really was telling the truth when they said 30% of Windows code is now written by "AI". I can't believe Microsoft is throwing their future away on this slop. This past year has seen some of the most bone-headed missteps happening at regular intervals. When the mighty fall they fall hard it seems. Microsoft, meet Boeing, you two have a lot in common. Now I hear Windows 12 is going to be cloud subscription based. Do they really think people want to pay for this ... over .. and .. over ..
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> It appears Microsoft really was telling the truth when they said 30% of Windows code is now written by "AI". I can't believe Microsoft is throwing their future away on this slop.
My guess is (and has been for a few years) that MS has entered the "deep organizational dysfunction" phase of its existence. In that phase they are living 100% off old glory and anything new they try just fails or makes things worse, because they are too disconnected and too much without insight to get things to work. *See, for example, their cloud having gotten hacked really badly a number of times by now...)
The next phase is "collapse" and it comes after they have piled up enough technological debt and br
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"but "AI" may have significantly shortened that timeline." - I believe you are correct.
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I think so too, but it will definitively be interesting to watch.
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Their insane current focus on "branding" over U/X is a perfect example of "deep organizational dysfunction". The people in charge are focused on the wrong things and it shows. The "Windows App" which is their replacement for Remote Desktop ... which was their replacement for Remote Desktop :/ (yes there are 2) is a perfect example of this insanity.
Another example of how professionals can't use it. (Score:4, Interesting)
This is not a minor bug, and luckily no one at my company has been hit by it, but, how can you risk using Windows, when these are the issues you run in to?
People joke about Linux being unstable, and having usability issues, when was the last time a major Linux distribution completely bleeped home directory access? I've never seen it, and I've been using Linux since 1999, maybe 1998. Let's be clear, you could do through incompetence, but that's of your own destruction, and if you did, you could easily get it back.
With Windows, not only do things break, the solutions are nonsense, or in the best cases, idiotic. I have a recurring issue where virtualization will just stop working on Windows, and it's not a UEFI issue. There is a long-standing issue where Windows can suspend, but then can't wake up. To get Windows to "wake-up", you need an installer so you can enter recovery mode, and tell the boot manager, TO BOOT.
Windows doesn't know how to BOOT, which tracks across most Microsoft products, they can't do the most basic functions of their use case. How can a professional, honestly, seriously, non-fraudulently, use Windows? If you can afford the massive amounts of downtime, you're not a professional! If you can afford the constantly "roll-the-dice" methodology on updates, you're not a professional! If you can honestly tell me that an OS which can't boot, is a suitable product for a workplace, don't, you're lying. Windows is not for professionals, it's not even for hobbies at this point.
I have it running in VM, on top of Fedora because in the best case that's the only safe place to have it, it's not ready for bare metal. Windows is for testing, and nothing else, and that's all I'll ever use it for because it's not an operating system, it's AdWare, bloated with ShareWare, and CrapWare, that only seeks to violate and harm it user base, when it works, which isn't often.
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> With Windows, not only do things break, the solutions are nonsense, or in the best cases, idiotic.
For me, that is the main complaint. With a good architecture and design, things may still break, but they break in places where you can reasonably expect them to and hence you can prepare. With Windows it is all over the place because they lack that good architecture and design and never understood thinks like KISS, resilience, the Principle of Least Surprise and basically all the things that are required to make engineering good.
Essentially, Windows is a souped-up toy at this time and used for things way o
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My guess is that Microsoft’s new developers only know how to build web pages and “web apps” (web pages that try miserably to pretend they’re desktop applications and fail spectacularly), and the developers who actually knew how the Windows kernel works have either retired or passed away. When the last of these “old-timers” is gone, Windows will probably collapse.
SLOP (Score:1)
Windows 11 Ladies and Gentlemen! The latest sloperating system from Micrslop! Headed by CEO Slopya Nadella who DEFINITELY is not a brainless con artist!!
the Windows 11 February update (Score:4, Interesting)
the thing is an atrocity. disappearing sys drives is just one of many issues with it, and Redmond sure seems to be dragging their ass getting around to fixing it.
it completely breaks username/password authentication on my simple LAN, so I uninstalled it. Let's see how March's update does...
from the fine issue notification department (Score:2)
"Microsoft and Samsung investigated these reports and concluded that the symptoms were caused by an issue in the Samsung Galaxy Connect app."
So Microsoft is only involved in this mega fail insofar as they created a shitty OS that applications need to hook into deeply in order to function. That ain't nothin' but it's still Samsung's software that exploded all over Windows and not the other way around.
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My understanding is sequence that Samsung PCs did not fail until after the Windows February update was installed. These PCs did not fail on the Windows January update. There is an interaction between the most recent Samsung Galaxy Connect and Windows 11 February update for sure, but both January and February Windows updates had huge problems on many non Samsung PCs.
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While Linux is often considered to be bit clunky, KDE Connect is an example of a much smoother experience than anything of MS.
Clickbait title (Score:4, Insightful)
The title suggests it's a windows 11 bug, but that's not the case, it is a bug in the Samsung App..
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The bug didn't happen until the Windows February update is installed. If the user does not install Windows February update or rolls back to an an older version of the Samsung app, they are fine. Bear in mind, the Windows February update has other problems on other PCs like being stuck in boot loops, dropping WiFi, etc.
Re: Clickbait title (Score:3)
There's plenty of blame to go around. W11 by all accounts is a dumpster fire, but Samsung companion software is notoriously shit.
Windows (Score:2, Troll)
Even windows has decided it too shit to be allowed to interact with so has stated killing itself.
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How embarrassing.