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 181.2K 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

2024-04-15T13:32:29+00:00

I can’t extend the Win RE partition because it’s the very first one & therefore no unallocated space next to it.

I did the delete partition override but that does not delete the partition, it just makes it unallocated space.

I did create a Win RE partition to the right of the C partition, but still had a first partition with 527MB of unallocated space. I did not try to shrink the first partition so am not sure what would have happened.

There’s only 2 other people I know that would have attempted this. Everybody else just uses Windows. They could hide the update, but how are they going to find out about doing that?

PS - how do you copy/paste into this thread without having sentences wrap around in the middle of a word?

And how do you add a posting without replying to someone else?

Thanks
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Anonymous

2024-04-15T01:06:03+00:00

I'm happy this works, but it is really embarrassing that any regular user would have to resort to such a dicey procedure. One small mistake and you could mess up your partitions and not be able to boot, or even use data. I've had this update failing for a long time and only now I stumbled upon this issue and fixed it.
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Anonymous

2024-04-14T04:25:05+00:00

April 14th. Problem still exists. Exact same error codes day after day. How do we know if Microsoft is even aware of and working on any problem? Their "resolved issues" page shows nothing for this year and only a handful of fixes last year. Surely that's not every problem. So where do we report specific problems like this? So they can get 1000s of messages saying "COME ON!!!"

I had said before that people come here to rant or ask MS W update engineers about this. But as far as I know, this forum is run by volunteers, who, in my experience, do a good job, but this specific problem is not in their hands.

So it seems MS update engineers don’t read or care about what is posted here. In their Twitter, they have this to feedback the engineers, but I doubt you will resolve much: https://t.co/Xn0QhLvHGL

Curiously, this was posted today on YouTube:

Windows 10 22H2 KB5034441 install error still mentioned on Known issues page what a joke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dyb9augMlVs
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Anonymous

2024-04-13T23:31:58+00:00

April 14th. Problem still exists. Exact same error codes day after day. How do we know if Microsoft is even aware of and working on any problem? Their "resolved issues" page shows nothing for this year and only a handful of fixes last year. Surely that's not every problem. So where do we report specific problems like this? So they can get 1000s of messages saying "COME ON!!!"
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