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We know about the failure of KB5034441, and the recent recommendations to modify a partition as a workaround. As an old school practitioner (since 3.1 came on floppies), and having crashed many a hard disk, modifying a partition seems rather extreme for an update workaround, unsafe, and IMHO highly NOT recommended. My questions are:
Is there another workaround or fix to KB5034441 not installing?
How important is this update seeing how update Tuesday is in just a few days?
Edition: Windows 10 Enterprise
Version: 22H2
Installed on: 8/19/2020
OS build: 19045.3930
Experience: Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.19053.1000.0
Elevated PS Script Command> Get-WindowsUpdate -Install -acceptall -IgnoreReboot
1 hostname Accepted KB5034441 23MB 2024-01 Security Update for Windows 10 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5034441)
2 hostname Downloaded KB5034441 23MB 2024-01 Security Update for Windows 10 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5034441)
3 hostname Failed KB5034441 23MB 2024-01 Security Update for Windows 10 Version 22H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5034441) (Error: 0x80070643)
UPDATE: Tuesday 2/27/2024
The issue was resolved by enabling the TPM is BIOS to allow the operating system to access the TPM. Nothing was done to modify partitions from the default install size. Currently I have a 50MB NTFS System partition, a 465GB Primary partition, and a 546MB Recovery partition.
Looking in the Update history, KB5034441 installed correctly. Kudos to 1proggy, below, for coming up with the answer for my system.
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Nicholas Sullivan1,
After running reagent/info, my Windows RE Location is harddisk #1 and partition #4.
If I bring up Disk Management it indicates that partition #4 is 718 mb and is 100% free.
Does that mean that the Windows RE Location is a sub-partition of partition #4? If so, too bad they didn’t just use the whole partition.
Thank you for your time,
DefinitelyNotFunny
PS: Hey Microsoft, what did KB5034441 say when it swam into a wall? Dam.
Yup, three options - program it yourself, upgrade to Windows 11, or live with it.
I may try to live with it (CVE-2024-20666 - Security Update Guide - Microsoft - BitLocker Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability …A successful attacker could bypass the BitLocker Device Encryption feature on the system storage device. An attacker with physical access to the target could exploit this vulnerability to gain access to encrypted data.)
Either way you cut it Microsoft did not provide a “user friendly” solution.
PS: Hey Microsoft, did you hear about KB5034441 stealing a calendar? It got 12 months.
Only Windows 10 22H2 and older have the KB5034441 install failure.
22H2 is the final version of Windows 10. So "22H2 and older" means ALL Windows 10 versions.
Only Windows 10 22H2 and older have the KB5034441 install failure. Download and install the newest version from the Microsoft server has the fix built into the reinstall version. The fix is different for different versions of W10 (Pro, Home, Enterprise...)
Sorry, I don't have the version number with me.
Windows 11 doesn't have the problem because, it uses a completely different method of organizing recovery data.
In other words, you're saying upgrade to Windows 11, because 22H2 is the final version of Windows 10. That's fine if you have a computer that can do TPM 2.0; I don't, and I'm not ready to give up the one I have.
Why do I feel like I'm stuck in a squeeze play between Microsoft and the PC manufacturers?
Only Windows 10 22H2 and older have the KB5034441 install failure. Download and install the newest version from the Microsoft server has the fix built into the reinstall version. The fix is different for different versions of W10 (Pro, Home, Enterprise...)
Sorry, I don't have the version number with me.
Windows 11 doesn't have the problem because, it uses a completely different method of organizing recovery data.
