"2024-01 Security Update for Windows 10 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5034441)" in 64-bit W10 Pro.

Anonymous
2024-01-09T18:58:13+00:00

Others' (https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/192l9kj/cumulative_updates_january_9th_2024/kh32u6f/) and my updated 64-bit W10 Pro. PCs, I'm getting "Status: Download error - 0x80070643" with "2024-01 Security Update for Windows 10 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5034441)" in 64-bit W10 Pro. right now. I already rebooted once from other today's updates:

  1. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/january-9-2024-kb5034275-cumulative-update-for-net-framework-3-5-4-8-and-4-8-1-for-windows-10-version-22h2-6c9a603c-f0a1-4b32-b7fa-a1c6337523f1
  2. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/january-9-2024-kb5034122-os-builds-19044-3930-and-19045-3930-7656c6a4-0b06-4424-86a9-d0719f4ac252

I read https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb5034441-windows-recovery-environment-update-for-windows-10-version-21h2-and-22h2-january-9-2024-62c04204-aaa5-4fee-a02a-2fdea17075a8's known issue about small WinRE partition with a https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb5028997-instructions-to-manually-resize-your-partition-to-install-the-winre-update-400faa27-9343-461c-ada9-24c8229763bf link. Couldn't MS do this to its users automatically without having to do it manually for non-technical users? :/

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-01-10T03:02:16+00:00

    Oooh interesting.

    Further to my earlier posts, KB5034441 installed quietly on it's own on one of the four win 10 machines it failed on earlier - this was without any re-attempt to install it manually (I saw no point as this approach had failed on 2 other machines) or doing anything to bitlocker or recovery partitions as per some of the solutions knocking about (all of which seem highly technical & way beyond the capabilities of most lay people).

    Hopeful that it had been fixed 'back end', I just tried on the other 3 it failed on. No go.... same error code 0x80070643 on those (all of which are all HP 10th gen machines, though I doubt that has anything to do with it, as the XPS is also a 10th gen & also has bitlocker enabled).

    I'll leave it to do like the Dell XPS & Just Work at some point, or wait until it is pulled & replaced by MS. Which they jolly better. The solutions offered don't seem to work for everyone.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-01-10T04:28:27+00:00

    Thanks for the post. I did something similar - shrinking the main partition by 250MB with the Windows built Disk Management app then following instructions on this page

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/topic/kb5028997-instructions-to-manually-resize-your-partition-to-install-the-winre-update-400faa27-9343-461c-ada9-24c8229763bf

    After retrying the update once or twice and then rebooting once or twice (it gets confusing after a while) Windows 10 shows that the update installed and all is up to date.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-01-10T04:41:21+00:00

    And the impossible update is ttill there - NOT withdrawn...

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-01-10T06:08:10+00:00

    Windows Update KB5034441 is a security update to the WinRe environment, but people are running into problems trying to get it downloaded and installed. KB5028997 tells how to resize your recovery partition so that this update can be installed, but it applies only to Windows 11 computers. I am in the same boat as John Dow 987654 and ULtraGreG. I need a workaround that applies to Windows 10 computers, if there is one.

    I have Windows 10 which I understand is supported thru 2024. Like the others, I need a simple (NOVICE) solution to this problem update (KB5034441).

    Please advise for those of us that are not "Tekies", and don't have administrator's access! Looking forward to Microsoft assistance with this security problem caused by the original Microsoft security designers who created this risk in the first place by ignoring the possibility of the risk this update is attempting to mitigate.

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