Windows update (KB5034441) Error (0x80070643)

Im not knowing what your talking about... its chinese stuff for me

Can you provide output of diskpart list part command for the boot drive please?

Wow, I'm running out of patience now too. I resized my RE partition using a third party partition app to allow the update to be successful, only now to have a phantom partition which was automatically assigned a "Local Disk (Z:)" letter. I can use diskpart to manually remove the drive letter, but it comes back on the next reboot. It is the same size as the 100 MB EFI System Partition. My Win11 Pro won't let me access the partition and I'm afraid to delete it since it might be symbolically linked to the real EFI System Partition. The phantom partition seems to be benign, so I might just leave it. sfc /scannow seems to recognize that something isn't right and claims to fix it, only for the phantom partition to come back again on reboot. There is probably a very simple fix which I don't know. Discussions of removing symbolic links to files and folders don't help much. I want to remove the symbolic link to a partition, I think. Note: rmdir z:\ I just gives me an "Access is denied" error message. Maybe I'll just do a repair install of Windows 11 Pro. I'm tired of waiting for Microsoft; and for me, the problems seem to be just compounding...

This is what shows up in File Explorer:

This is much more complicated than most people know. The difficulties in changing partitions on drives require Administrator privileges and may or may not be possible depending on the individual PC SSD or HDD. There are ways to run scripts for authorized Users to complete the needed steps, but this would require some careful update programming.

The bottom line is that for 95% of PC's running Win 10 this update has no significant effect on the operation of the Operating System. It is bothersome to see the Red Warning and the incomplete update, but that is just cosmetic.

Many of the older Win 10 PCs will likely be going to Win 11 when Microsoft publishes easy methods of making this Update. The Official Microsoft Update to Win 11 for the old Win 10 PCs is already released, and allowed by Microsoft. With this update, there are no guarantees and no further updates to address problems you may have. Microsoft has a Disclaimer on this Win 11 Update that states (in so many words) that it may tank your PC completely as they are not dealing with old hardware drivers for Win 10 anymore. Most of these old PCs are just too slow, too outdated, insufficient RAM, reqire a TPM (Trusted Platform Module) or TPM 2.0, need better CPU, and likely need to be replaced. Getting a new Win 11 PC is necessary for many people. No need to jump ship to Apple over this trivial Win 10 update. If you can wait for a few weeks for Microsoft's more public announcement you will be miles ahead. If you want to make the leap to Win 11 now, look up the Registry changes, make them, and go for the Win 11 update. You will need to buy a bigger Thumb Drive for the image. The Win 11 change will resolve this insignificant issue of Recovery size and Partition creation. It will be a complete OS changeover - for those who just can't afford a new PC.

Tom's Hardware has a very good article on what to do: https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/bypass-windows-11-tpm-requirement I am not affiliated with them, but like their site, very good one. Oh and yes, YOU are responsible for any problems, headaches, troubles, or tanks people.

If you can't wait, then get a new PC (of your choice of course).

It's been 3 months for me! I hoped some nice "geek" would have solved this by now.