{"id":233281,"date":"2026-03-14T05:15:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T10:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/microsoft-windows-11-users-cant-access-c-drive-on-some-samsung-pcs"},"modified":"2026-03-14T05:15:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T10:15:33","slug":"microsoft-windows-11-users-cant-access-c-drive-on-some-samsung-pcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/microsoft-windows-11-users-cant-access-c-drive-on-some-samsung-pcs","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft: Windows 11 users can\u2019t access C: drive on some Samsung PCs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/microsoft-windows-11-users-cant-access-c-drive-on-some-samsung-pcs.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft is investigating a new issue affecting some Samsung laptops running Windows 11 after installing the February 2026 security updates, in which users lose access to their C:\\ drive and are unable to launch applications.<\/p>\n<p>The company says it is working with Samsung to determine whether the problem is related to the Windows updates or Samsung software installed on affected devices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsers might encounter the error, \u2018C:\\ is not accessible \u2013 Access denied\u2019, which prevents access to files and blocks the launch of some applications including Outlook, Office apps, web browsers, system utilities and Quick Assist,\u201d explains Microsoft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is investigating a new issue affecting some Samsung laptops running Windows 11 after installing the February 2026 security updates, in which users lose access to their C:\\ drive and are unable to launch applications. The company says it is working with Samsung to determine whether the problem is related to the Windows updates or [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}