Windows update (KB5034441) Error (0x80070643)

Hi tangerinesKPTCSFAN,

Can't say if someone gave you this information, I haven't read all the conversations.

I only can say that at my company, I had this issue and the only thing that have worked on more than 15 PC running Windows 10, managed by Desktop Central, Azure and a lots of politics, is shrinking the recovery partition.

Here you can find the instructions on how to do it: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb5028997-instructions-to-manually-resize-your-partition-to-install-the-winre-update-400faa27-9343-461c-ada9-24c8229763bf

Tips:

• In some cases, 512MB would do it, some other cases I had to elevate the recovery partition size up to 1GB.
• If you want, do the math and rise the number directly to 1GB. For example: If I have 250MB for the recovery partition, I'd shrink it to 1Gb with: "Run shrink desired=750 minimum=750". At the end, that is what I did (instead of incrementing the size by 250 every time.)

Hope this helps you and others.

Regards,

But how? Diskpart can not shrink partitions to the right hand side. If recovery partition is located before the boot one (like in my case), the only option is to delete it and recreate after the boot. This is risk the PC owner need to participate in mitigation - at least by making a full system backup prior of these operations. Security has a price.

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This finally what worked for me (I read a lot and tried a lot of methods).

Download Windows 22H2 from the Microsoft website. You can either create an ISO or a USB with the media creation tool (the next steps will be easier with a USB). If you use an ISO you will have to mount it virtually.

Find the install.ESD file (usually in the root directory of the ISO or USB). Convert it to install.WIM following these steps.

Create a directory for the install.ESD and copy the file you located above.

From that directory, enter:

Check the status of recovery

reagentc /info

Disable windows recovery

reagentc /disable

dism /Get-WimInfo /WimFile:install.esd

dism /export-image /SourceImageFile:install.esd /SourceIndex:1 /DestinationImageFile:install.wim /Compress:max /CheckIntegrity

Open the install.wim with 7zip (or peazip) and scout through the directory trees to locate folder winre.wim (including reagent.xml 
copy the contents of the folder into C:\Windows\System32\Recovery (while in 7zip or peazip)

Then resize your recovery partition using the steps outlined here:  

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb5028997-instructions-to-manually-resize-your-partition-to-install-the-winre-update-400faa27-9343-461c-ada9-24c8229763bf

diskpart

list disk

sel disk<OS disk index of your windows boot drive, usually it is zero>

diskpart

list part

(note from the list, information will be provided that the disk is GPT or MBR, I will address GPT)

select part*<WinRE partition index>*

shrink desired=250 minimum=250

create partition primary id=de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac

gpt attributes =0x8000000000000001

format quick fs=ntfs label=”Windows RE tools”

list vol

exit (from diskpart)

Finally, run:

reagentc /enable

run the problem update (took a long time on my computer)

A video of the partition resize procedure is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J_wPCampdU&t=323s

This is very creative, and I believe it will work. Very good advice and clear.

I never was able to use the "quick format" command, so you can just use "format fs=ntfs"

Hope the "Label" command works for you. I did my Partition name "label" later using MiniTool Partition Manager Freeware (yes parts to do this are FREE).

Good luck.