2024-01 Security Update for Windows 10 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5034441) error (0x80070643) a known issue?

Thank you, but I've never heard of a Powershell script and the link you gave doesn't explain how to use it in simple layman's terms. It still seems rather complicated to me. Hopefully Microsoft will fix it through a later normal update process.

I also have read that Windows Home Edition does not come with BitLocker. So that probably applies to many users that are not tech savvy. Updates should be tested to be automatically applied and not have to have complicated workarounds. Hopefully they will get there act together and fix this for the general public without jumping through hoops.

That worked for me too, actually.

My problem was I really didn't like the process described in KB5028997. I find the number of steps involved and the deletion of the existing, otherwise healthy WinRE partition a little scary, especially considering the included note warning that the partition (re)creation may 'fail'.

It seems to me that it might be safer to simply shrink the existing O/S partition slightly (like by 500MB - 1GB or so) and then expand the existing recovery partition into the resulting unallocated space.

In my case, my C: drive's recovery partition was about 500 MB in size, (which was apparently 150 MB short of the minimum recommended size of 650 MB). I decided to increase my recovery partition's size to about 1 GB.

I decided to document how I solved it and what I found along the way:

https://www.northshore-it.com/tips/how-tos/manually-resize-your-recovery-partition/

Let me know if this helps anyone!

What worked for me was re-sizing the WinRE partition to 1 GB.

Mine had been failing but just succeeded. The main difference for me, don't know if it was causation or correlation, was that I did update and restart instead of update and shutdown.