Update KB5034441 fails to install

Anonymous

So the other topic about this was lokced for who knows what reason, why lock a topic / problem that has not been resolved yet?

I keep getting notification every day about this update and as you know we cannot install it because of some problem. What I read in the other locked topic is that the update is something for bitlocker, I dont use bitlocker so do I need it? Also is there a way to set windows to ignore this update and stop reminding me about it ?

MS needs to fix this and not have people doing all kinds of risky steps in order to fix it. Most people wont know what to do when they see that the update can't be installed, many are not that good with technical windows stuff. So if anyone can tell me a way to tell windows to ignore this update thx.

EDIT: I just saw a video where they explained how to hide it using a tool from MS called WUShowHide, isnt there a way to hide it directly in windows without the need of downloading this tool?

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Ramesh 181.2K Volunteer Moderator

Hi Salvida,

From Windows 10, version 22H2 | Microsoft Learn

Issue details January 2024

The January 2024 Windows RE update might fail to install

Status Originating update History

Resolved N/A

KB5034441

2024-01-09 Resolved: 2024-04-30, 14:07 PT

Opened: 2024-01-12, 14:10 PT

Devices attempting to install the January 2024 Windows Recovery Environment update (KB5034441) might display an error related to the size of the Recovery Environment's partition. The Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) is used to repair or recover from issues affecting Windows.

Resulting from this error, the following message might be displayed.

"0x80070643 - ERROR_INSTALL_FAILURE"

Important: If your Windows device does not have a recovery environment configured, you do not need this update (KB5034441). In this case, the error can be ignored.

To determine whether your device has a recovery environment configured, inspect the WinRE status by following these steps:

Open a Command Prompt window (cmd) as admin.

To check the WinRE status, run reagentc /info. If the WinRE is configured, a "Windows RE status" field will appear in the output, with value "Enabled". If WinRE is not configured, this field will have the value "Disabled".

Resolution: Automatic resolution of this issue won't be available in a future Windows update. Manual steps are necessary to complete the installation of this update on devices which are experiencing this error.

The WinRE partition requires 250 megabytes of free space. Devices which do not have sufficient free space will need to increase the size of the partition via manual action. For guidance on making this change, review the following resources:

A code script can be used to extend the partition size. A sample script has been provided in the documentation for adding an update package to WinRE. See Extend the Windows RE Partition.

Guidance to manually change the WinRE partition size can additionally be found in KB5028997: Instructions to manually resize your partition to install the WinRE update.

Completion of these manual steps will allow the installation of this update to succeed.

Affected platforms:

Client: Windows 11, version 21H2; Windows 10, version 22H2; Windows 10, version 21H2

Server: Windows Server 2022

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If you don't have WinRE enabled and don't plan to use it, you may simply hide the KB5034441 update using the WUShowHide.diagcab tool.

The tool can be downloaded from the following link:

https://download.microsoft.com/download/f/2/2/f22d5fdb-59cd-4275-8c95-1be17bf70b21/wushowhide.diagcab

Select the KB5034441 update and hide it.

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Anonymous

2024-04-19T11:26:32+00:00

I think this confirms that it is all free:
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Anonymous

2024-04-19T02:33:41+00:00

This worked for me. Thanks!

EDIT: I resized the Recovery Partition to 1.5GB. Over kill, but it worked.
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Anonymous

2024-04-18T12:06:04+00:00
Hay, all! Just want to share my expereince here...

The work around in KB5028997 did not work for me out of the bat... but I was able to install the KB8034441 update after I was able to successfully resize the WinRE partition from 510MB to 1010MB.

I tried to follow the instructions on KB5028997 to resize my WinRE partition and everything was going well until I got to the point where it is asking to format the partition (step 5b). The format command was unable to complete the command successfully because there was no volume in the partition:

I have a gpt disk and this is was the partition layout after expanding/re-creating the WinRE partitiion:
```
DISKPART> list partition

  Partition ###  Type              Size     Offset
  -------------  ----------------  -------  -------
  Partition 1    System             100 MB  1024 KB
  Partition 2    Reserved            16 MB   101 MB
  Partition 3    Primary             98 GB   117 MB
* Partition 4    OEM               1010 MB    99 GB
```
This is the error I am getting when I tried to issue the format command:
```
DISKPART> format quick fs=ntfs label="Windows RE Tools"

There is no volume selected.
Please select a volume and try again.
```
So I attempted to create a volume inside the partition but it does not like that either:
```
DISKPART> create volume

Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.19041.3636

RAID        - Create a software RAID-5 volume set.
SIMPLE      - Create a simple volume.
STRIPE      - Create a stripe volume set.
MIRROR      - Create a mirror volume set.

DISKPART> create volume simple

A disk specified is not dynamic.
Please specify a dynamic disk and try again.
```
I also tried to format the newly created partition using the Disk Management GUI but there were no options to format... What I ended up doing is deleting the partition and using Disk Maangement to re-create /format it. After re-enabling WinRE, I have re-tried the failed update and it went through successfully. Hope this helps someone out there - good luck!
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Anonymous

2024-04-17T17:31:42+00:00

I am hiding it. At the same time I'd like to correct/fix the issue. Depends on the moment.
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