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

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

While CrowdStrike has issued an update to hole its bundle 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 volition get the indispensable update, but for others the lone way is having to manually footwear into Safe Mode and deleting the problematic CrowdStrike update file.

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

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