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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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Can someone please suggest me how should I ideally restore my back to normal? I am disappointed with all the update thing and Now I am careless about that particular update. Now My computer is not booting up and it shows the error I mentioned in the previous message.
Hi Ravindra,
My guess is you have inadvertently deleted the OS partition.
To verify that, run these command from WinRE (booted via USB) Command Prompt
If the OS partition is missing, your best bet is to use a professional data recovery solution to recover your files from the OS partition and then do a fresh install.
that is of no use for admins who manage a fleet of laptops, i am not asking my user population to submit feedback.
DISKPART> sel part 1
Partition 1 is now the selected partition.
DISKPART> shrink desired=250 minimum=250
You may not shrink OEM, ESP, or recovery partitions, or, offline volumes.The volume you have selected may not be shrunk.Please select another volume and try again.
I am receiving this error on many Windows 10 systems. Microsoft instructions DO NOT WORK!
I am looking for an easy solution to allow this update to install.
Linux gparted may solve the problem. For those that know how to use Linux utilities.
After Microsoft very unsuccessful instructions were not solving the KB5034441 error, I decided to adjust the WinRE partition through Linux's gparted utility.
However, after adjusting the partitions in the Windows 10 system from 500MB to 750MB:
The KB5034441 update still fails to install:
What is next Microsoft?
