Is there a workaround for KB5034441 install failure that doesn't require partition modification?

Anonymous
2024-02-10T02:17:25+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2024-06-24T16:46:19+00:00

    Agreed. Absolutely unreasonable, and absolutely intolerable. As someone who has typically manually set up custom multi-boot partitions to run multiple OSes on one computer, I am still absolutely not going to resize any of my existing partitions, nor am I going to reinstall Windows on any of my PCs. Microsoft, you are earning scorn and contempt for behavior like this. Casually inflicting hours of restorative labor on each of millions of users, and no doubt causing some of the attempts to fail, instead of just changing your update methodology/approach/demands. Unbelievable arrogance.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-06-25T23:39:02+00:00

    download the show/hide tool from microsoft and hide the thing so you never see it again and it doesn't try to install again

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-06-27T20:36:15+00:00

    I opted to HIDE the update till there is a simpler fix. Here is the download path to the Microsoft Update item Hide/Unhide software tool: https://download.microsoft.com/download/f/2/2/f22d5fdb-59cd-4275-8c95-1be17bf70b21/wushowhide.diagcab

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-07-05T15:07:25+00:00

    Interesting....

    Windows 10 KB5034441: PC's without a WinRE recovery partition do NOT need this Update ?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDLjr53HSHE&list

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-07-26T13:56:18+00:00

    This reg key resolved the issue for all our affected HP laptops.

    Thanks.

    reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion" /f /v WinREVersion /t REG_SZ /d "10.0.20348.2201".

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