data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/microsoft” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/microsoft”>Microsoft has issued a patch for data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/windows-11″ data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/windows-11″>Windows 11 after an update released on October 14 quietly broke the Windows Recovery Environment on some systems. The data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/topic/october-20-2025-kb5070773-os-builds-26200-6901-and-26100-6901-out-of-band-0f533ed7-949a-4b89-8d0f-6ee751adfcd4″ target=”_blank” data-url=”https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/topic/october-20-2025-kb5070773-os-builds-26200-6901-and-26100-6901-out-of-band-0f533ed7-949a-4b89-8d0f-6ee751adfcd4″ referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” data-hl-processed=”none”>new update, KB5070773, restores USB keyboard and mouse input inside WinRE for Windows 11 versions 24H2 and 25H2, reversing a bug that left the recovery interface completely unusable on affected machines.
The issue, confirmed by Microsoft over the weekend, stemmed from cumulative update KB5066835. After installing it, users found that data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/windows-11s-october-update-just-broke-the-windows-recovery-environment-usb-keyboards-and-mice-unusable-in-windows-re-after-latest-bug-hits” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/windows-11s-october-update-just-broke-the-windows-recovery-environment-usb-keyboards-and-mice-unusable-in-windows-re-after-latest-bug-hits”>USB peripherals…
