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 181.1K 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

2024-07-10T21:37:26+00:00
This is great detail on how to do this, but when I tried the script, I faced errors.

Collecting OS and WinRE partition info...

OS Disk:

OS Partition: 4

WinRE Partition:

Get-Partition: C:\winre_resize\resize_script.ps1:111

Line |

111 | $WinREPartition = Get-Partition -DiskNumber $OSDiskIndex -PartitionNu …
```
 |                                              ~~~~~~~~~~~~ 

 | Cannot validate argument on parameter 'DiskNumber'. The argument is null. Provide a valid value for the 

 | argument, and then try running the command again. 
```
Get-Disk: C:\winre_resize\resize_script.ps1:112

Line |

112 | $diskInfo = Get-Disk -number $OSDiskIndex
```
 |                               ~~~~~~~~~~~~ 

 | Cannot validate argument on parameter 'Number'. The argument is null. Provide a valid value for the argument, 

 | and then try running the command again. 
```
Disk PartitionStyle:

WinRE partition size info

Get-WmiObject: C:\winre_resize\resize_script.ps1:24

Line |

24 | $volume = Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Volume | Where-Object { $par …
```
 |                ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 

 | The term 'Get-WmiObject' is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program. 

 | Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again. 
```
Partition capacity:

When I tried the manual route, it wasn't clear what I needed to do because it shows I have 2 recovery partitions, and both are big enough.

Microsoft DiskPart version 10.0.19041.3636

Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.

On computer: CWARD-DXD-PC

DISKPART> list disk

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt

Disk 0 Online 953 GB 1024 KB *

Disk 1 No Media 0 B 0 B

Disk 2 No Media 0 B 0 B

Disk 3 No Media 0 B 0 B

DISKPART> sel disk 0

Disk 0 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> list part

Partition ### Type Size Offset

Partition 1 Recovery 450 MB 1024 KB

Partition 2 System 99 MB 451 MB

Partition 3 Reserved 16 MB 550 MB

Partition 4 Primary 952 GB 566 MB

Partition 5 Recovery 513 MB 953 GB

DISKPART>
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Anonymous

2024-07-06T18:52:51+00:00

Followed the directions to increase the recovery partition size by 250MB and the update is still failing. Note that it was 500MB with 100% free prior to even modifying the partition size.
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Anonymous

2024-07-03T18:32:10+00:00

Yes I can create another partition where it supposed to be.

But this does not have to remain. Windows RE can be moved back to partition 1 after updating.

Deleting the first partition probably means all the others have to automatically fill in & move to the left, and it doesn't appear that's a likely scenario.

That is not how it's supposed to work. Partitions are not supposed to move into unallocated space by themselves.
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Anonymous

2024-07-03T18:07:54+00:00

Sağolun
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