Microsoft releases recovery tool to help repair Windows machines hit by CrowdStrike issue

Microsoft has released a betterment instrumentality that’s designed to thief IT admins repair Windows machines that were impacted by CrowdStrike’s faulty update that collapsed 8.5 cardinal Windows devices connected Friday. The instrumentality creates a bootable USB drive that IT admins tin usage to thief quickly retrieve impacted machines.

While CrowdStrike has issued an update to hole its package that led to millions of Blue Screen of Death errors, not each machines are capable to automatically person that fix. Some IT admins person reported rebooting PCs aggregate times will get nan basal update, but for others nan only way is having to manually footwear into Safe Mode and deleting nan problematic CrowdStrike update file.

Microsoft’s betterment instrumentality now makes this betterment process little manual, by booting into its Windows PE situation via USB, accessing nan disk of nan affected machine, and automatically deleting nan problematic CrowdStrike record to let nan instrumentality to footwear properly. This avoids having to footwear into Safe Mode aliases a request of admin authorities connected nan machine, because nan instrumentality is simply accessing nan disk without booting into nan section transcript of Windows. If a disk is protected by BitLocker encryption, nan instrumentality will punctual for nan BitLocker betterment cardinal and past proceed to hole nan CrowdStrike update.

Microsoft besides has abstracted betterment steps disposable for Windows Virtual Machines running connected Azure, and nan institution has besides published betterment steps for each Windows 10 and Windows 11 devices complete astatine its support site.