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When I tried to install the windows update "2024-01 Security Update for Windows 10 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5034441)" I received the error code (0x80070643).
I have already tried, restarting my computer, waiting a bit before retrying, running a memory diagnostic check, checking all my drivers for updates, installing optional updates, and running a malware scan.
When I tried to run the windows update troubleshooter it said "diagnosing problems" but never fixed them and I was still unable to install the update after running the trouble shooter.
Any help would be appreciated.
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OK, I did a repair installation of Windows 11 Pro. An 846 MB Recovery Partition is now in place.
Disk Management now looks like this:
Unallocated space at the ends of SSD devices is Samsung Magician Over-Provisioning (~10%).
Unfortunately, File Explorer still shows a phantom Drive Z. I may hide it as you suggest, or just ignore it.
Thanks for your help and suggestions.
Good advice given for you to start over with the Recovery Partition. You need to make a Recovery Partition as you do not have one.
Imressive storage setup and curious. Why are there a tens of gigs of space marked as Free on disks 0, 5 and 6 (I suppose these are SSD drives)? Is this machine dual-boot? Do you have a Linux installed on it? O, I got it - you left 10% of free space for SSD overprovisioning. I am sure you can use about 1% of it for the RE partition :) I guess this is why Microsoft standard instruction with shrink did not work for you.
And list volume output please? And also would be nice to see reagentc /info output as well.
It seems a recovery partition is yet to be created on disk 0. There is 84GB of free space on it which of less than 1GB you can use for RE partition.
You can follow the instruction from Microsoft a bit tuned to your setup.
reagentc /disable
diskpart
select disk 0
create partition primary id=de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac size=996
gpt attribute=0x8000000000000001
format fs=ntfs label=WinRE
list partition
exit
Please note that size=996 part of the create partition command absent in Microsoft's instruction - this is because you already have a free space on your boot drive and you do not shrink an existing partition to the left to make one.
The next step is reagentc /enable. If that is successful then you can restart your machine and repeat attempt to install the KB5034441.
LEWCARVER - I did successfully install Update KB5034441 after I used a third party partition manager to upsize the Recovery Partition. I assumed, maybe incorrectly, that upsizing the Recovery Partition would not change its ID or attributes. However, I do not see the Recovery Partition listed any longer and my 100 MB EFI System Partition is now listed in Disk Management as separated from Boot Drive C (but not in diskpart) and given drive letter "Z" in File Explorer. I've clearly screwed up somewhere along the line. sfc /scannow did not fix the problem(s). Rather than risk a non-bootable system, I think it's time for a Repair Installation.
vayvanne - here you go: