Windows 10 20H2: ChkDsk damages filesystem on SSDs with KB4592438 installed

Post by garaetjjte » Sun, Dec 20, 2020, 1:22 PM UTC

STRML wrote: post #209

2ion wrote: post #199

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Not even to mention the willfully broken font rendering on all peripherals that are not "retina enough" since a few versions ago. Using my work macbook with my trusty 16:10 monitors with 1920x1200 resolution in the home office is a literal eye sore since it's impossible to get a clear font image. The company had to send over a retina-enough screen... The worst font rendering Linux ever had is still better what macOS…

If you're having color banding, you may need to force RGB on your external monitor [1]. I had to do this a few years ago, it massively improved the picture. That said, I was in disbelief that this was a problem that both was common enough to be all over the Internet, and so involved to fix. Amazes me that OSX doesn't simply have an advanced setting for RGB/YPrPb, and instead requires that you boot into Recovery Mode…

Post by diegoperini » Sun, Dec 20, 2020, 1:28 PM UTC

userbinator wrote: post #57

I'd be very curious to see a deep root-cause-analysis of this, especially because it seems to be SSD-specific and in the "detect if the drive is an SSD and do something slightly different" way, which IMHO is not good behaviour in general as it is leaking the abstraction. I wonder if a VM simulating a virtual SSD hosted on a machine with a regular HDD would be able to reproduce this bug, but then again, recent Windows…

Post by GordonS » Sun, Dec 20, 2020, 1:41 PM UTC

pmontra wrote: post #144

_trampeltier wrote: post #82

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Yes, HP seems really like worse machines. I just set the max. CPU to 80% because of the costant fan noise. He is quiet now but also slower (of course). Also just the sound driver is around 500MB in RAM, serious? Lucky me I have 32GB. Since I work in a large company, I have nothing to say about the computer brand. At home I'm a happy Fujitsu user since many years.

ZBook 15 here (2014) and no such problems. I always used it with Ubuntu so they seem related to Windows. Strange because one expects that HP optimize their hw and sw for Windows.

Post by whoopdedo » Sun, Dec 20, 2020, 1:46 PM UTC

qayxc wrote: post #160

sfgweilr4f wrote: post #86

Overwhelming desire to run this wusa /uninstall /KB:4592438 should I?

No need. This is just as overblown a reaction. First of all there's no reason to ever run chkdsk/f in the first place if there are no problems with your SSD. Secondly, just never use chkdsk /f - chkdsk /scan is faster, requires no restart and no further action is needed if no problems were found. Problems can be fixed using chkdsk /spotfix otherwise, which doesn't cause any problems.

Post by segfaultbuserr » Sun, Dec 20, 2020, 1:48 PM UTC

Roritharr wrote: post #184

segfaultbuserr wrote: post #114

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SATA Link Power Management (LPM) and Device-Initiated Power Management (DIPM) could also be the culprit here with similar symptoms - after using the computer for a while, the SSD will stop responding to I/O activities, leaving you a half-dead system. Existing programs like a browser, taskbar or window manager will still work for a while, until they need I/O too, eventually everything will be progressively dead. It sh…

Thanks, as this is an AMD Notebook with an PCIe NVMe SSD i'm not sure the SATA Link Power Management is applicable. I've turned off the PCIe Link Power Management though, sadly without improvements. I have to say this problem ONLY appears when DELETING these specific 4gb zip files. I really can't reproduce this in any other way.