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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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The only logical true answer that worked for me, cheers man, how can i did not guess myself that you should resize your primary part, not the recovery one, so that the recover will get enlarged :), best answer, and the update went through like just for few seconds. It appeard in the history of updates so it is installed! Thanks again!
Also I foget to mention that I did this on virtual machine! (VMWare). All is fine and working perfect. Thank you.
FYI -
Here are the exact steps I used on many Windows 10 Pro x64 systems to correct this KB5034441 error.
Open CMD as Administrator:
Press Windows Key
Type in "CMD" (without the quotes)
Click on 'Run as administrator'
C:>reagentc /info
Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration
Information:
Windows RE status: Enabled
Windows RE location: \?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition4\Recovery\WindowsRE
Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: 35a5023d-a860-11ee-96cd-f84def5fa1af
Recovery image location:
Recovery image index: 0
Custom image location:
Custom image index: 0
REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.
Note: partition 4 in WinRE.
C:>reagentc /disable
REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.
C:>diskpart
DISKPART> list disk
DISKPART> select disk 0
DISKPART> list partition
Partition ### Type Size Offset
Partition 1 System 100 MB 1024 KB
Partition 2 Reserved 16 MB 101 MB
Partition 3 Primary 464 GB 117 MB
Partition 4 Recovery 1007 MB 464 GB
DISKPART> sel partition 3
DISKPART> shrink desired=250 minimum=250
DiskPart successfully shrunk the volume by: 250 MB
DISKPART> select partition 4
DISKPART> delete partition override
DISKPART> create partition primary id=de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac
DISKPART> gpt attributes =0x8000000000000001
DISKPART> format quick fs=ntfs label=”Windows RE tools”
DISKPART> list vol
DISKPART> exit
C:>reagentc /enable
REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.
C:>reagentc /info
Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration
Information:
Windows RE status: Enabled
Windows RE location: \?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition4\Recovery\WindowsRE
Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: 35a5023f-a860-11ee-96cd-f84def5fa1af
Recovery image location:
Recovery image index: 0
Custom image location:
Custom image index: 0
REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.
Restart Windows 10. Install KB5034441 through Windows Update without error.
Tried everything that everyone else suggested and nothing worked until I came across this. Thank you whoever you are and God bless you.
Tried everything that everyone else suggested and nothing worked until I came across this. Thank you whoever you are and God bless you.
You are welcomed. Glad it helped.
It worked! Thanks
it never install only for pcs that have is has a recovery partition on c drive if your pc doe not then never install fail over and over
