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

Wow that is a lot of work... Microsoft Technical Support gave me an official definitive answer. A 1 step solution:

Step 1) Reinstall windows 10 with the latest version, the script with the fix is embedded in the update.

Microsoft will not post the script for the end user to download, and Microsoft will not update the update to include the script.

Of course this takes considerable preparation time i.e. full backup and hours to download, install, setup and reinstall apps and data. Seems to me like cause for a world wide class action.

What do they mean by approaching EOL?

Windows 10 EOL is on October 14, 2025. Which is not a week time, it is more than 1 year from today.

We can follow the suite and say Windows 11 is approaching EOL too. What's the point?

May be we need to grasp MS recommendation for upgrading as to any non-MS OS upgrade?

I suspected as much, thanks for the confirmation. Microsoft (MS) in it's benevolence and protectiveness wants you to upgrade to a Windows 11 compatible machine, for security reasons, of course. But I laugh at that as a write this on a 2009 HP 8-core workstation. Many moons ago MS decided to stop supporting XP or whatever was current MS product then for this machine. But this is one of the better workstations HP ever made. So I introduced it to Ubuntu a few years back. It's been very happy ever since.

Though I do understand MS's point of view, proprietary software over the years is what convinced me to go open source for the OS. I do have a Windows laptop, but the day MS makes that machine obsolete, it too will cross the bridge over to the Linux universe. Why? Because I don't throw away a useful and functional tool on the whims of a company telling me I need the latest doodad...

I have same issue on an old Dell 690 that still works fine but the fix did not fix this. MS must be up to old tricks trying to disable old computers as a lot of previous updates made me reset windows. Its so they can sell more windows licenses=more profits=higher stock price. I may need to look at Linux again or some other more lucrative OS as this monopoly continues. Cant wait for Windows 11 w AI and more CIA/FBI spy **** NOT.

Why just not check the processor first, then resize the partition if the processor is > Intel 805xx? As to resizing partitions on the storage device, it's not something I would recommend to anybody without dire reason, and this update doesn't appear dire. Windows isn't Linux, especially if you have Bit Locker enabled. Chien Sage has the best reply so far, IMHO.

To update, I just installed an SSD and Windows 10 Pro on the very machine in question. It has an i5-7200U, which is Product Code 80677. With a fresh vanilla install, using the latest downloaded Windows Install Media Creator app, I get the error as it automatically updates. Still. On a fresh install, Windows controls partition creation, not the user.

BTW, what does it mean "an Independent Advisor"? I've been working with Windows since 3.1 came on floppies, been there, done that in pretty much any imaginable way with Windows, and not that long ago was operating a nice Dell blade server with Windows 2019 Data Center, so can I be an Independent Advisor? Does it pay, and if so how much?