Security Update for Windows 10, 2024-11, KB5048239 getting error 0x80070643 when installing

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I have exactly the same problem as this (reported earlier this year), but with the new KB5048239 update. I get the 0x80070643 error when it tries to install. Retried several times, but same issue. I'm pretty sure this is the same problem that I had back in January, too. All security updates have worked fine since then, till now. At that time I was told that this was a general problem with the update and a fix was being made by Microsoft. I did wait and eventually that previous update went away. Now here we are again...

Hello,

The 2024-01 Security Update for Windows 10 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5034441) will not install on my Windows 10 laptop computer.

I get the following message 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) Retry

When I click on Retry it says its Installing-0% for a few minutes then Installed-100% and then I get Download Error (0x80070643) 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) Retry

Windows Update Troubleshooter could not fix this problem.

I'm not sure what to do, please help.

Thank you

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Anonymous

2024-12-16T15:40:24+00:00

I've tried most of them and posted some feedback earlier in this thread. I am not a beginner at working with partitions, running scripts, editing the registry. I've been using Windows for 3 decades, re-installed it a hundred times, literally, manage software development successfully for big industrial operations. Your solutions do not work for many of us and at some point the only ethical thing to do is to acknowledge that the problem is at Microsoft.
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Anonymous

2024-12-16T15:40:29+00:00

You make a lot of good points, with one exception: ad-heavy Windows 11.

My notebook computer runs Windows 11, and it is not "ad-heavy" for me. Certainly, defaulting to opening Microsoft Bing's "home-page" when launching Microsoft Edge is showing many small windows. Changing my web-browser's home-page to anything works for me.

Also, defaulting to the Bing search-engine, and the Google search-engine, does inject many ads. Switching to a site like www.DuckDuckGo.com works for me.

QED
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Anonymous

2024-12-26T17:04:54+00:00

I've looked through this thread and tried I think almost every idea but still fails. On this end this is a W10 Hyper-V guest.

For some reason i can not upload any images here it fails to upload :-(

I also have two recovery partitions one is 450mb and the other is 789mb which is the active one and is at the end of the disk after my C:

I also have the dreaded C: 100% disk utilization on this guest.

I'm almost at wits end with the same issues seeming to keep cropping up.

TIA Leon Zetekoff
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Anonymous

2024-12-26T22:11:52+00:00

ok looks like now that there is a message I can upload images???
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Anonymous

2024-12-26T23:57:56+00:00
> On this end this is a W10 Hyper-V guest.

Do you have a Windows 11 "host", with Hyper-V having a Windows 10 "guest" operating system?

> I also have two recovery partitions one is 450mb and the other is 789mb which is the active one and is at the end of the disk after my C:

The early releases (in 2015) located the "Recovery" partition at the start of the disk-drive. That explains the 450 MB partition.

When I use the "reagentc /info" command, I see:
```
**Recovery Environment:** 
```
*\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition2\Recovery*

Harddisk "zero" is my computer's first disk-drive,

while "partition2" is the 3rd partition on my disk-drive.

Do you see "partition1" in the output on your computer, or "partition5 ? If the former, then that partition is too small for the update to be applied. If the latter, then the 789 MB might be too small.

Do not believe that "0% used" tag for your "partition 5".

Unfortunately, the "hidden" files/folders are not counted, when giving that "0%" result. Sigh.

You must have installed Windows 11 a LONG time ago, to have that partition at the start of your disk-drive.

There do exist free utilities that will "shrink" your "C:" partition by some amount, e.g., 1000 MB, and then to "expand" your 5th partition by that amount, namely 1000 MB plus the 790 MB.

Then, retry the Microsoft update.

I also have the dreaded C: 100% disk utilization on this guest.

Since you seem to be using Hyper-V, are you measuring the utilization on the "host" operating system, or are you measuring the (virtual) disk utilization on the "guest" ?

Note that restarting Windows (10 or 11) after a Windows Update may trigger:
- a virus-scan
- disk-drive optimization ("defragmenting")
- updating the Windows Search "cache" after noticing new/changed files
Any of these will result in a short-term "100%" condition.
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