Update KB5034441 fails to install

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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

2024-03-30T22:26:03+00:00

No offence, but I find ridiculous that “the solution” is a fresh install backing up everything, just for a silly update, and update that as I have said before most of you don’t even need it.

And I have read that doesn’t work for everyone, because in some devices also the new created WinRE partition in W10 has not the right size and the fresh install comes without this update.

So unless some of you use BitLoker, and have fear someone with physical access to your PC may hack it (it cannot be done online so is not that dangerous), stop worrying, hide it you don’t need it, stop doing weird experiments in your partitions, it’s not important, unless you are in the mentioned case, you don’t need this update!

Just DL the tool to hide it and forget this MS flop even exist. I am not going to do a fresh install just for one of their many faulty updates.
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Anonymous

2024-03-13T11:01:25+00:00

Arno, it's over 3 months now and Microsoft hasn't done a darn thing to fix this, instead their consultants just throw technical stuff at us who are suppose to fix this ourselves. I am NOT a computer person and no nothing at all on how to do anything they suggest. Microsoft itself should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this to happen, what the heck are they getting paid for, to just to sit around and screw up more updates? very pissed off at the way this is NOT being handled.
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Anonymous

2024-01-24T19:00:44+00:00

**Workaround:**It might be necessary to increase the size of the WinRE partition in order to avoid this issue and complete the installation. Note that 250 megabytes of free space is required in the recovery partition. Guidance to change the WinRE partition size can be found in KB5028997: Instructions to manually resize your partition to install the WinRE update.

Is this saying that the partition must be greater than 250MB or is this saying it must be exactly 250MB.

The validity of this workaround is HIGHLY suspicious: my Recovery partition is 522 megabytes and the install STILL fails...
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Ramesh 181.1K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator

2024-01-18T03:06:12+00:00

The big question is: WHEN will MS be sending out a viable update to replace this one. We use Bitlocker here, and we do not wish to have this vulnerability on our systems. This Microsoft update failure is in quite poor form.

There is no ETA mentioned. No one except MSFT knows when it will be fixed.

If you've resized the partitions and still the update didn't install, share the following logs on OneDrive if possible.

c:\windows\logs\ReAgent\ReAgent.log

c:\windows\logs\dism\dism.log
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