AMD warns of potential (but rare) Windows corruption when updating Radeon GPU drivers
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TheDeeGee
And that's why you use imaging software.
I use AOMEI Backupper, a full backup every month with a incremental each day, and keep 3 months of backups.
Vananovion
Great if you have the know-how and resources for it, but I find it easier to just do a fresh Windows install if something like that happens. All important data is away from the system drive, so all I lose is like 30mins of reinstall work.
TheDeeGee
Most applications no longer work if you keep them on another drive and reinstall the OS, because of missing registery keys, as those are made during the installation.
But if that works for you then GG, i've had issues in the past doing that.
tsunami231
system drive has OS and few program installed on nothing that vital. all documents and game installs are done off drive for. and Steam,GoG most other "lauchers" at this point let you point to where the game folder is and recreate necessary registry. in case of programs that need to be installed on the OS drive one just need to make sure the saves are dont on diffrent drive which is easy enough. I make back up to external rarely these days cause most I need are in documents folder, which dont change much for me anyway.
these day I only do back up if I move data from one drive to another drive cause I replacing drives.
I prefer to just do reinstalls of windows over backups. cause much quicker for me.
as for AMD issue. I sure they will not live this down any time soon.
CPC_RedDawn
Its apparently caused by windows forcing an update during the driver install.
FatBoyNL
Also sure they will not live this down any time soon.
But I'm so confused right now 😕
tsunami231
windows for the win? windows knows best? ms know best?
TheDeeGee
That's why i always disable LAN when doing a driver update, Windows is way too bossy with installing it's own drivers like that.
fantaskarsef
Good that you got it figured out. I bet the other 99% don't keep daily active backups of their whole images.
And quite frankly, although you are absolutely right, I would say nobody should need to take extra precautions to not break their OS with a driver update.
Apparently, these are the days of not using anything on day 1.
Undying
Thats why i always install my drivers with connection disabled. Nvidia or AMD.
schmidtbag
As PC enthusiasts, you're bound to have some crappy old computer you no longer have a use for, and probably a bunch of spinning rust lying around. Those make for a great backup server. My backup server is comprised entirely of spare parts and took maybe a couple hours to configure. I configured the BIOS to turn the PC on at the first of every month, and then when my main home server is done rsync'ing, the backup server shuts down automatically, so I'm not wasting power while the server runs.
rsync is free to use, so I paid nothing in software.
moab600
AMD been hitting gold with Ryzen but digging s*** with Radeon.
They REALLY need to change the software guys ASAP, to screw so much in such a little time, even nVidia takes a bit more time to f u up.
Undying
Didnt nvidia warn a potencial high cpu usage using the latest driver? Both companies fuck up.
Agonist
Tell us all how ignorant you really are. Seriously fanboy.
moo100times
This is a great idea. I might try this! Thanks
tsunami231
what happens when there "automatic" repair fails? which i have seen happen:p
i guess i could alway setup all the spare parts i have to do this,
MonstroMart
If you know how to install Steam you know how to use AOMEI Backupper. It's as simple as installing the software and pressing a button to do a system backup. You must have your games installed on a secondary drive though to backup the OS only to an external drive. Restoring a backup is a little bit more complicated than taking a backup but it's fairly simple too you have to create a recovery media on a USB key and then boot to it. Highly recommened it takes about 15 to 20 minutes to restore a full windows install if you get a virus or anything goes wrong.
waltc3
Any 3rd-party software that reboots the machine while WU is writing to C:\ will cause big problems with Windows...;) You can even do it yourself without any software running--whenever WU is writing to C:\ when installing, just hit the reset button and see what happens. It's not a bug...! It won't be fixed. This is like "Computers for N00bs 101"...Windows update even tells you--don't reboot while the update is taking place. Anyone using Factory Install would know that it reboots automatically...;) You can control when Windows Update runs very easily, so don't update your drivers when you are updating Windows.
Krizby
Radeon takes up 20% of GPU marketshare, yet responsible for 100% of windows bricking GPU driver update 😀
TLD LARS
Windows can brick itself all on its own, no problem.
Had a Windows corruption happen when the computer stood idle, turned on monitor and it said missing Windows.
Windows was completely trashed, could not repair (error told me repair was already running please reboot), chkdisk did not help, update rollback did not help, safemode did not work.
Windows boot disk allowed me to open cmdprompt, then open explorer.exe to backup files from the software broken Windows disk.
After reinstall on new SSD I could transfer 500GB back and forth between crashed windows SSD and new SSD no problem, no sign of any hardware errors, other then SSD thermal throttle after 1 hour of file transfer.
Atleast the reinstall fixed the problem I had with Windows update always removing the local Lan file sharing protocol after every update.
