

To speed up the process and prioritize the deployment of the fix on your device you can also restart any potentially impacted devices. The issue has now been resolved according to Microsoft for all non-managed devices, although it might take up to 24 hours for the fix to self-propagate to all affected devices.

"A small number of devices that have installed this update have reported that when running chkdsk /f, their file system might get damaged and the device might not boot," Microsoft explains. This ongoing issue affecting Windows 10 users was first spotted by Planet3DNow users and first reported by Günter Born. While Microsoft doesn't say which Windows 10 versions are affected by this new known issue, the bug was acknowledged on the dedicated pages for the KB4592438 and KB4586853 updates issued for Windows 10 versions 2004 and 20H2 in December and November, respectively. Microsoft has acknowledged a new issue impacting Windows 10 customers that might cause booting to fail on devices where the chkdsk tool has been used to repair logical file system errors.Ĭhkdsk is a command-line utility that can be used to check a Windows device's volumes for file system and file system metadata logical and physical errors.
