Windows update (KB5034441) Error (0x80070643)

I am replying to this post because I see no way to post my own original ... i.e., my own original grief and ANGER at MS for this. I worked in IT since early 1970s (mainframes thru mins thru micros, etc.). I am retired and just want the darn things to work. I stuck with MS even though Apple users argued how easy their systems were and that they "just worked." I am retired and "just want my desktop Windows 10 and laptop Win 10 to work!" My PCs are old and will not load Win 11, but so what! Win 10 and my hardware work for my uses (no gaming, video editing, etc.)). Is this actually the beginning of MS efforts to FORCE us to move to Win 11 ... and for the benefit of the manufacturers to get us to update our systems since Win 11 will not run on our "antique" systems. If so, the hell with MS and PCs. I'll look at Apple systems ... or Lynix ... or Chromebooks or something! My wife got a new iPad and we have Apple phones ... they just work. Not an Apple advertisement at all. I like using Windows and MS apps, but this has left me frustrated over many attempts and ANGRY. I realize developer teams move on to the next and greatest, leaving the grunt work to maintenance teams ... but this is ridiculous.

I have Linux Mint on all but one PC in my arsenal.

It seems I'll have to ditch MS altogether. What a load of bollocks MS has become.

Micro$oft is playing a dangerous game. How many of the gazillion Windows computer users are willing and able to successfully use their crackbrained workaround? Personally, I have no interest in goofing around with my partitions to solve a problem that shouldn't need fixing. My computers do just fine without this goofball update.

M$ needs to get rid of this update unless and until it works properly. They want absolute control of our computers. Now they want control of our time and effort too?

The problem is that the suggested Microsoft workaround (involving a manual extension of the recovery partition using diskpart) may or may not work.

I have a PC with dual Window 10 boot SSD's - I can boot Windows 10 from either SSD. One SSD has a recovery partition of 840Mb and KB5034441 installed OK, without the need for me to do a manual extension of the recovery partition. On the other SSD the recovery partition was only 460Mb and KB5034441 failed with the dreaded 0x80070643 error. I extended the recovery partition by 250Mb to 710Mb, using the Microsoft instructions. 0x80070643 still occurred. I tried extending the recovery partition again, this time to 960Mb. Same 0x80070643 error.

I don't think that the recovery partition size is the only reason for KB5034441 installation failure - there must be some other potential cause, which is not addressed by the suggested Microsoft workaround.

This worked for me just now, followed the video and the microsoft article.