Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches cause instability

Re:Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches... by ohiovr on Monday January 29, 2018 @06:57AM (#16256956)

My brother was hit by a recent update to Windows 7 that prevented the machine from booting. He went to Microcenter to buy a hard drive. There were a lot of people doing the same thing for the same reason when he was there.

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Re:Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches... by quiq on Monday January 29, 2018 @08:33AM (#16257364)

I don't use the windows side of my machine very often, but decided to update it last night. Booted fine (OS on SSD), but one of the HDDs with all of the windows files was corrupted. No go with ntfsfix, chkdsk, partition table destroyed. Reformatted it as ext4 and windows doesn't get to touch it anymore. Haven't tested it too much yet but seems to be working fine.

Remember to use backups!

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Re:Microsoft disables Spectre mitigations as Intel’s patches... by ohiovr on Monday January 29, 2018 @02:07PM (#16259829)

My brother did have major data loss. And no real backup strategy.

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