Unable to update (KB5034441) using below links

Anonymous
2024-01-10T05:14:55+00:00

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb5034441-windows-recovery-environment-update-for-windows-10-version-21h2-and-22h2-january-9-2024-62c04204-aaa5-4fee-a02a-2fdea17075a8

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb5028997-instructions-to-manually-resize-your-partition-to-install-the-winre-update-400faa27-9343-461c-ada9-24c8229763bf  (I was following steps from this link. I saw that I have 520MB of Healthy Recovery Partition in which I failed to shrink and the error was "you may not shrink OEM, ESPY or recovery partitions, or, offline volumes. The volume you have selected may not be shrunk. Please select another volume and try again.".) (Also when I shrink from C: and then I do not see new partition which suppose to be seen).

So kindly help.

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-03-21T14:45:14+00:00

    If someone has ideas on why the resizing fails, and what I can do about it, that will be much appreciated!

    This could happen with a Microsoft Reserved Partition in between, which could be deleted immediately.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-03-21T15:34:39+00:00

    Thanks for the quick response, Volume Z! Interesting. Here's what I see in DISKPART when I run LIST PART, select the partition that sits between my big partition with the OS and recovery partition, and then get details on that in-between partition:

    Partition 2 is the big partition where the OS lives. Partition 4 is the Recovery partition. In between is Partition 3, which is listed as a "healthy" system partition. It's only 100 Mb in size. No indication that it is a Reserved partition.

    How can I determine whether this partition is safe to delete?

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-03-21T19:26:41+00:00

    Not possible. It's not Reserved, it's System. Essential.

    Try updating without resizing.

    Disable Windows RE and delete the recovery partition as usual.

    Then enable Windows RE, run Windows Update and install KB5034441 which will work.

    Disable Windows RE again.

    Create the new recovery partition as usual.

    Enable Windows RE again in hopes the updated Windows RE will accept the new recovery partition.

    The additional space required is all about the update process which can take place on drive C.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-03-22T15:45:31+00:00

    Thanks again, Volume Z. Good news and bad news. Following your instructions, KB5034441 did finally install. However, when I then created the new recovery partition, it was the same size, 510 Mb, as before.

    Looks like I will have to either:

    • use another method to resize the partition
    • re-install Win10 and manually choose the partition sizes (no data on this PC, so it will be inconvenient but not crisis), or
    • just wait to see if Microsoft comes out with its long-promised fix.

    I appreciate the help.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-03-22T16:57:25+00:00

    Did you try disabling and enabling Windows RE again so the recovery environment may return to its original, unresized place?

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