Microsoft wants 2025 to be the "year of the Windows 11 PC refresh." They want up to 400 million perfectly good computers running Windows 10 to become e-waste. Why? So Microsoft can have their cake ($140-$200 for a Windows 11 license) and eat it (your data) too

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@folfdk That almost sounds more like a software issue than a hardware one, but it's hard to say without doing some diagnostics. Were the Fairphone forums any help?