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

Absolutely "risking destroying the OS"

Couldn't agree more!

No way am I going to play "maybe" with production servers...

At this point, we probably should all at least just wait.

Almost all replies I've gotten from Microsoft-affiliated people or community figureheads are not helpful, and they repeat the same stuff to multiple people, and most of the time it doesn't work. The worst-case scenario is that Microsoft doesn't care and lets this update stick with us and forces us to eventually tamper with our partitions, risking many people unintentionally harming their computers. I genuinely never messed with partitions either, and I don't want to. I have even been told by friends and a couple tech channels to just straight up ignore the partition suggestion and wait to see if Microsoft even intervenes.

Surely Microsoft has to step in, right? probably not. As I had a discussion with a few support employees over twitter, most suggested doing an "in-place repair" or something and one straight up said that there are "no issues with windows update."

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of people complaining about this issue right now, and Microsoft should've stepped in yesterday or hours before, but I am not sure how long patches or update fixes take to make.

The two updates that are failing me are the following:

KB5034122 (culminative update): 0x80073701 error

KB5034441 (security update, main culprit): 0x80070643 error

The other minor updates were installed without issue.

There's a small riot going on Windows 10 Reddit and also here in the forums. By now, Microsoft should've definitely done something, and those tech-focused news outlets should be covering this. I can only find a few covering it, but they're based in Japan.

This worked for me if you are not comfortable with using cmd diskpart . ghacks and i recommend that you create a system backup before you make any changes to the system. Microsoft's workaround requires deleting and resizing partitions.

https://www.ghacks.net/2024/01/10/fix-0x80070643-error-install-failure-when-trying-to-install-windows-update/

Thank you ghacks.

First, check if WinRE is available:

1. Open Start, type CMD, and select "run as administrator" to launch an elevated command prompt window.
2. Run the command reagentc /info. If you see path information, WinRE is enabled. Note the number behind harddisk and partition in the path, these are needed later on.
3. Run reagentc /disable to disable WinRE for the operation.

Now shrink the OS partition to create a new recovery partition:

1. Run diskpart.
2. Run list disk to get a list of all hard disks connected to the computer.
3. To select the operating system disk, run the command sel disk <OS disk index>. Replace >OS disk index" with the harddisk value.
4. List all partitions by running list part. Check for the primary partition there. It is usually the largest.
5. Select the (primary) operating system partition with the command sel part <OS partition index>.
6. Run shrink desired=250 minimum=250. This shrinks the operating system partition by 250 MB.
7. Run sel part <WinRE partition index> to select the recovery partition. Use the partition number that you got when you ran the first command at the top.
8. Delete the partition by running delete partition override.
9. Type list disk again and check if there is an asterisk character (*) in the GPT column of the drive.
   1. If the disk with Windows on it is GPT, run the following commands:
      1. create partition primary id=de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac
      2. gpt attributes =0x8000000000000001
   2. If the disk is MBR, run the following command:
      1. create partition primary id=27
10. To format the partition, run the command format quick fs=ntfs label=”Windows RE tools”.
11. Run the command list vol to verify that the Recovery Partition is available again.
12. Type exit to exit diskpart.
13. Run reagentc /enable to enable the recovery environment again.
14. Make sure that this is the case by running reagentc /info.

Same problem, win10 here, disk partition 1gb/1gb. Of all the solutions I have seen so far, it requires a little more knowledge on Windows and making a backup of my disk because I could damage my entire system if I f*** up ..... and nope.... I am not willing to do that at the moment. The question is for Windows if they are going to make a fix for this because on my system I tried everything possible (troubleshooting, restart, disable all the applications from the start up, etc. ), but nothing works. And I'm not going to modify everything by CMD risking all the system!! I'm sorry.

after reading 15 pages of comments......... where the heck is mircosoft????? fix this update error please.