frustrating update of KB5034441

I have spent, literally hours trying to resize partitions. I now have 1.26 gb in the Win RE partition, I still can't get the KB5034441 update to install. I am not a professional computer person, just a consumer that has been faithful to MS for a long time, since 3.0 and before that MS DOS. I do like a challenge, but I cannot get the update to install.

I hope M$ will fix the issue soon. I am running Windows 10 and will use 10 right until the end.

All M$ has in it's sights is $$$$. KB5034441 does not make money, so why hurry to fix it.

It's a sad day in the greatest country in the world.

Microsoft should have anticipated this problem when new PCs started coming out with relatively small solid state drives and a larger hard drive. Naturally, installs will default to the SSD, so obviously there should be a way of relocating the Recovery Partition to another drive.

Agreed...there is no way 98% of Windows users will have the technical knowledge or courage to try and fix this by shrinking and expanding partitions to allow the patch to run. Never gonna happen. They need to either shrink this patch to fit in a smaller partition or include a utility in the patch that expands the WRE automatically. Not sure that will work either, because in many cases, corporate environments have partitions in a different order - WinRE is not the next partition so shrinking/expanding won't even work in those cases - the partitions would have to be reordered as well. Not sure they can do that.

It would be nice for Microsoft to acknowledge the problem but their support services have been cut to the bone...not sure they have any support staff left to talk to - there isn't in our corporate account anymore.

MS seems to be in a bit of trouble...

We should not have to change settings on our computers in order to install failed updates from microsoft. Microsoft needs to get its act together and really fix this problem that they caused. With the Nov cum update it messed up my computer so bad that I had to reinstall win10 22H2. Microsoft needs to get its act together and fix these update problems. Seems like they are trying to force us to go to win 11.

There were some problems installing updates, but we'll try again later. If you keep seeing this and want to search the web or contact support for information, this may help: (0x80070643)