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: 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 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? :/

I finally managed to get that issue resolved on my computer by resizing the WinRE partition after trying a number of times. I'm sooo glad it's resolved

I had this problem on 3 PC's and so far I've fixed 2 by following the procedure in KB5028997. However I resized the WinRE partition to ~950MB from 563MB as after increasing it by 250MB it still failed. Also 1 PC had a partition style of GPT and the procedure worked perfectly, however 2 others have MBR style and this gave rise to another problem. After re-enabling WinRE with the new partition created it seems to be pointing to the wrong partition i.e. I now have reagentc /info returning: Windows RE status: Enabled Windows RE location: \?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk1* partition2 \Recovery\WindowsRE* Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: 503ab989-affc-11ee-b443-50e549b23526 Whereas before it was \?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk1* partition3 \Recovery\WindowsRE* and partition 3 is where LIST PART displays the "Windows RE tools". I've now found the solution to this. It seems that the command create partition primary id=27 doesn't assign id 27 although it does create the partition and name it. I found the id was 7. So there are 2 commands to help with this: detail part - shows the currently selected partition details e.g. 7 instead of 27 set id=27 - this works! detail part - should show correct id After re-enabling reagentc I got the correct partition assigned! So in my experience the KB5028997 procedure solves the KB5034441 installation failure in Windows 10 provided the above 2 amendments are included. The only scenario not covered is where there is another partition between the OS and WinRE ones. Hopefully MS are working on a proper fix for this as having a major Windows security flaw permitting Bitlocker encrypted file access renders it useless. On the other hand anyone caught by a ransomware attack has a solution to recover their system without paying the hackers!!! :p

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

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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:

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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2024-02-19T21:35:02+00:00

I finally managed to get that issue resolved on my computer by resizing the WinRE partition after trying a number of times.

I'm sooo glad it's resolved
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2024-01-12T13:50:29+00:00

not instol
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2024-01-12T13:19:29+00:00

update problam
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2024-01-11T22:06:39+00:00

I had this problem on 3 PC's and so far I've fixed 2 by following the procedure in KB5028997. However I resized the WinRE partition to ~950MB from 563MB as after increasing it by 250MB it still failed. Also 1 PC had a partition style of GPT and the procedure worked perfectly, however 2 others have MBR style and this gave rise to another problem.

After re-enabling WinRE with the new partition created it seems to be pointing to the wrong partition i.e. I now have reagentc /info returning:

Windows RE status: Enabled

Windows RE location: \?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk1*partition2\Recovery\WindowsRE*

Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: 503ab989-affc-11ee-b443-50e549b23526

Whereas before it was \?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk1*partition3\Recovery\WindowsRE*

and partition 3 is where LIST PART displays the "Windows RE tools".

I've now found the solution to this. It seems that the command

create partition primary id=27

doesn't assign id 27 although it does create the partition and name it. I found the id was 7. So there are 2 commands to help with this:

detail part - shows the currently selected partition details e.g. 7 instead of 27

set id=27 - this works!

detail part - should show correct id

After re-enabling reagentc I got the correct partition assigned!

So in my experience the KB5028997 procedure solves the KB5034441 installation failure in Windows 10 provided the above 2 amendments are included. The only scenario not covered is where there is another partition between the OS and WinRE ones.

Hopefully MS are working on a proper fix for this as having a major Windows security flaw permitting Bitlocker encrypted file access renders it useless. On the other hand anyone caught by a ransomware attack has a solution to recover their system without paying the hackers!!! :p
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