KB5034441 update problem, error (0x80070643).

Anonymous
2024-01-10T15:18:19+00:00

I have tried to update and I get error 0x80070643 with update KB5034441. I have tried uninstalling the Windows update, restarting the Windows Uptade service, deleting the update files and I have also run the following commands:

DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth

DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth

DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth /Source:C:RepairSourceWindows /LimitAccess

DISM /Online /cleanup-image /startcomponentcleanup

sfc /scannow

chkdsk C: /f

But nothing has fixed the problem

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Anonymous
2024-01-11T18:16:15+00:00

The update KB5034441 failed with a fatal error when staging the WIM. This is due to a lack of free space in the WinRE partition. KB5034441: Windows Recovery Environment update for Windows 10, version 21H2 and 22H2: January 9, 2024 - Microsoft Support

Resizing the Recovery partition to 750 MB resolves the issue. That applies if you use the Windows-default winre.wim.

For OEM-supplied winre.wim (which has additional drivers and packages), ensure the Recovery partition's size is atleast 100 MB more than the size of the custom wim.

KB5028997: Instructions to manually resize your partition to install the WinRE update - Microsoft Support: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb5028997-instructions-to-manually-resize-your-partition-to-install-the-winre-update-400faa27-9343-461c-ada9-24c8229763bf

 

Note: The above MS article works only if your Recovery partition is situated next to (i.e., right side) the OS partition. You can check the disk layout by opening Disk Management.

 

(Based on what I've noticed on the forums, many users have decided to skip/hide the KB5034441 update and wait and see if Microsoft releases a fix.)

After command SFC /scannow
& resize of WinRE to 1GB, managed to get this update working. 👍

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-02-01T16:55:32+00:00

    Well, all you lovely Windows 10 pro users out there; the bottom line firstly is this:

    Update KB 5034441 should have come with a 'public health warning,' because unless you have BitLocker enabled and I do not, this update should be avoided at all cost's! But of course over eight pages of posts already tells a sad story!

    Secondly: That warning should have read and made quite clear by Microsoft that> Unless you know how to extend a boot partition, seek help from a Microsoft support agent.

    Even though I am a long retired Computer aided design engineer and used MSDOS long before Windows was a glint in the eye of Bill Gates and Paul Allen; it still took me a considerable time to stop seeing a blue screen every time I started my computer!

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-02-09T12:47:07+00:00

    This solution worked for me (MS did not!) ... many thanks.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-02-15T17:09:02+00:00

    Microsoft's obvious objective is to destroy old computers. I understand the problem as MS seeing "old computers" as the problem. Just too bad my computer isn't broken, but MS insists on "fixing" it anyway. Until MS breaks it or set it up for some cyber-criminal to break it for MS. And no matter how EVIL MS gets, no matter how glaring or obvious the mistakes and bugs from MS, there is nothing I can do about any of it. I hope to gawd I have purchased my last MS machine last year--but MS has also destroyed my freedom to pick other options. Just too fricking bad I like freedom, eh? Just when I think I don't have to hate Microsoft so much...

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-02-16T04:51:44+00:00

    Maybe time to think about using Linux as an OS. I tried it and liked it, but I am too hooked into MS Office and none of the alternatives that I have seen for Office worked as well as one would hope. Also I have other software that I use that only runs on Windows. Interestingly one of my PCs took the update just fine. The other did not; probably because the C: drive is smaller on it. I don't have enough space to expand the area that the solution calls for. Windows has always been a mixed blessing. MS has made some real blunders with some of their Operating Systems. Some organizations are still using Windows XP because it is cheaper to pay Microsoft for support than to upgrade dozens of PCs in a large organization. I always liked Windows NT. Then XP. Windows 7 wasn't too bad either. Vista was terrible.

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