Update KB5034441 fails to install

Anonymous
2024-01-14T12:58:19+00:00

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 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2024-01-14T13:15:28+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2024-02-09T02:57:52+00:00

    Here's the thing. I have received no updates since KB5034441 failed.The failure apparently prevents my OS from updating especially malware and virus definitions.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-02-08T12:22:58+00:00

    Seriously though this and all the other problems is getting beyond a joke, between Windows 10 and Windows 11 it is ridiculous.

    Reading this off other sites and people are now getting freezes, serious lagging, crashes, Blue screens of death, that is even causing Disk boot failures because the software is corrupting. I mean even though these forums are run by volunteer moderators and they try to help, you'd expect someone from Microsoft development to actually take a glimpse once in a while especially when millions of users now have the same problems.

    You have to wonder at this point where even sending feedback, recordings even Microsoft Remote support is a failure and having someone on Microsoft's side telling you "Maybe if you upgrade to Windows 11 it may solve your problem" is really not helpful for a support member to say, especially when people can't even upgrade because of the shambles that Microsoft has committed.

    4 of our work PC's today are now bricks and at this rate of these problems are happening this late into Windows 10, and Windows 11, my god what will Windows 12 be like since it's Codenamed Next Valley, aka Windows 12 and si supposed to be coming in 2024. (last rumour and news from insiders was stating June 2024 release).

    Windows 10 was supposed to be the "final" with just updates, and now with Microsoft stating they'll want you to pay for updates coming in 2025 it will be crazy to expect people to pay for this when they can't even fix what has been around for nearly 9 years. More so now as even PC experts and repair engineers are telling people "Don't update to Windows 11" as advisement because it's basically Windows 8 bad.

    Pagan, I couldn't agree with you more with what you wrote about this on-going failure of Security update. It's been over a month now, MS experts know about this problem so why aren't they doing anything to correct this and fix it. To have those volunteer moderators answer our questions is a waste of time and useless. They are not the ones responsible for the problem we have, get those MS tech/experts in and repair our problems. As you said, it makes you wonder if reporting issues to MS is even being taken into consideration, with what is happening with this Security failure makes me seriously believe now, they don't give a damn at all, SHAME ON YOU MS for letting us all down,

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-02-07T18:55:16+00:00

    Seriously though this and all the other problems is getting beyond a joke, between Windows 10 and Windows 11 it is ridiculous.

    Reading this off other sites and people are now getting freezes, serious lagging, crashes, Blue screens of death, that is even causing Disk boot failures because the software is corrupting. I mean even though these forums are run by volunteer moderators and they try to help, you'd expect someone from Microsoft development to actually take a glimpse once in a while especially when millions of users now have the same problems.

    You have to wonder at this point where even sending feedback, recordings even Microsoft Remote support is a failure and having someone on Microsoft's side telling you "Maybe if you upgrade to Windows 11 it may solve your problem" is really not helpful for a support member to say, especially when people can't even upgrade because of the shambles that Microsoft has committed.

    4 of our work PC's today are now bricks and at this rate of these problems are happening this late into Windows 10, and Windows 11, my god what will Windows 12 be like since it's Codenamed Next Valley, aka Windows 12 and si supposed to be coming in 2024. (last rumour and news from insiders was stating June 2024 release).

    Windows 10 was supposed to be the "final" with just updates, and now with Microsoft stating they'll want you to pay for updates coming in 2025 it will be crazy to expect people to pay for this when they can't even fix what has been around for nearly 9 years. More so now as even PC experts and repair engineers are telling people "Don't update to Windows 11" as advisement because it's basically Windows 8 bad.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-02-06T18:25:58+00:00

    Why am I supposed to know how to fix this as if we were software specialists? Get it solved you morons!

    Insulting and ranting here is not going to help. These forums are administered by volunteer moderators, in my experience they do what they can to help but this issue most be resolved by MS update engineers.

    MS engineers don't read here, and I doubt they care.

    I think there are other ways to give them feedback.

    Clearly, this "meh! it may fail on some devices; they just need to resize their partition" and other screw-ups and flops show they are nerds totally living in their bubble and don't know or care what the average user thinks; they are totally disconnected.

    I feel if we are lucky until next Tuesday in patch day we may have a fix, and I still would wait to see if they didn't screw up and make it worse.

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