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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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Microsoft doesn't have the best track record.. it is truly disheartening to see someone with such blind faith for a mega cooperation who has constantly been bricking Operating systems with updates. Perhaps if they had our interests in mind when breaking our computers with faulty updates.
I understand there is no solution for the problem KB5034441Critial update . How can I remove the update warning from Bitdefender updates so I don't keep getting the warnings?
Thanks Pete
Hello everyone,
i also have been dealing with this issue for many extensive hours but could not resolve it and even contacted many times Microsoft expert about but no resolution, the best option availible to wait for microsoft about to resolve it.
My lame BIOS does not permit me to modify or enable TPM.
I have 5 of the exact same spec computers, bought at the same time. 1 of 5 is running into this error installing the update. The Windows and Recovery partitions are all set to the same size on all machines. It installed fine on 4 of the 5.
The error does not seem to be entirely related to the recovery partition size. As a test, I also deleted all Windows Update files and reinstalled the update. It failed during install with the same error code.
