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
    2024-06-24T10:16:05+00:00

    Reinstall windows 10 is the only "Official" solution from Microsoft.

    The script for repartition and expand the bios setting is embedded in the W10 updated download version.

    Our complaint is...

    Since the solution script is available why not make it available as a w10 update? Reinstall is a very time consuming manual labor intensive process. Therefore, unreasonable for anyone supporting more than 1 W10 PC. Actually, Since the solution script is written it is unreasonable for all users.

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-06-03T14:34:11+00:00

    My problem with any such fix is philosophical, and because when "adjusting" partitions a full drive backup is highly recommended, which is a pain.

    The philosophical problem stems from the fact that nobody reading this post has configured the size of their Recovery partition, initially. That has been something done at the whim of the operating system when it was installed on the hard disk. I've installed hundreds of Windows machines, and not one asked me to set the size of the Recovery partition. You probably can, but that is not the default install. Since the configuration was done by Microsoft software, and the issue occurs because of a Microsoft change, it doesn't seem to be something under the control of or caused by the user.

    *<removed - COC violation>*Then they wonder why we are hesitant to add dubious AI capability to the OS. Or to migrate to 11. And, BTW, I have no AI bias, I subscribe to OpenAI and Gemini.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-06-02T18:49:40+00:00

    I didn't have to bother with any of that.

    I used free Paragon Partition Manager

    Ignored the first prompt

    navigated to repartition data to shrink

    Added size to recovery partition

    Saved

    Rebooted

    Ran update.

    Done.

    Don't make it complicated.

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-05-30T00:41:06+00:00

    not everyone has tpm, read the posts

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