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

2024-04-16T14:08:22+00:00
Now the command runs and I get this which I'm guessing is saying there is an issue with the Recovery environment but I don't know how to read it. Either way, again I'm running this on a VM and Microsoft needs to fix the issue.

Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration
Information:
```
Windows RE status:         Enabled  
Windows RE location:       \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition1\Recovery\WindowsRE  
Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: c2a18d28-f9cb-11e9-95db-a3b245e514a9  
Recovery image location:  
Recovery image index:      0  
Custom image location:  
Custom image index:        0  
```
REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.
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Anonymous

2024-04-15T09:48:00+00:00

So I fixed it. Tried all solutions written here but nothing helped, so eventually extended Win RE partition to 3GB. After this change update stalled a bit on Installing 0% and disappeared.

Took me 2 hours to solve but I'm glad it worked.
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Anonymous

2024-04-14T16:21:13+00:00

Microsoft used to be on top of things bu it seems that lately the wheels are starting to come off?

I try to install this update everytime the reminder comes up and this has been going on almost since the beginning of the year.

I waste a lot of time trying installing this, hoping that it wll work at last, but Microsoft is pathetic and does not care to inform us how to not get the reminders to install something that does not work!
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Anonymous

2024-04-10T06:59:16+00:00

That actually seems like an elegant option. Why do we have here 33 pages of comments, yet I didn't notice this option being mentioned once. Thank you.
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