Home windows 10 KB5034441 remains to be damaged with 0x80070643 error

Home windows 10 KB5034441 is so damaged that Microsoft has been operating “on a solution” for greater than 4 weeks and nonetheless doesn’t have a correct resolution. KB5034441 is a compulsory replace for other people with a Restoration partition, nevertheless it received’t set up on maximum {hardware} because of 0x80070643 error.

KB5034441 is a safety replace for Home windows Restoration Setting (WinRE), enabled on methods with a restoration partition. That is the most important unlock because it fixes a safety factor that permits attackers to avoid Bitlocker’s encryption of alternative walls via exploiting WinRe’s vulnerability.

It doesn’t topic whether or not your Home windows set up is the use of BitLocker. So long as you could have a restoration partition, KB5034441 will attempt to obtain and set up mechanically, however our assessments printed the safety replace would now not set up with an error message titled “0x80070643 – ERROR_INSTALL_FAILURE”.

This factor has been extensively reported via customers in our boards, together with within the feedback segment of the earlier article on Home windows Replace.

As you’ll be able to see within the above screenshot, Home windows updates are blocked with the “0x80070643 – ERROR_INSTALL_FAILURE” message, this means that some customers are not able to put in the February 2024 replace (KB5034763).

So what reasons the patch titled “2024-01 Safety Replace for Home windows 10 Model 22H2 for x64-based Techniques (KB5034441)” to many times fail with a imprecise error message 0x80070643 – ERROR_INSTALL_FAILURE” and block different updates?

Microsoft officers informed me the problem is exactly restricted to PCs with low cupboard space at the restoration partition.

In a reinforce record, Microsoft famous that the Home windows Restoration safety replace wishes no less than 250 MB of loose area within the restoration partition to put in effectively:

• For Home windows 10 v2004 or Home windows Server 2022: You’ll have 50 MB of loose area if the partition is smaller than 500 MB.
• For different variations, you’ll have greater than 300 MB of loose area when the partition is 500 MB or better.
• When the partition is greater than 1 GB, it should have no less than 1 GB of loose area.

Despite the fact that Microsoft suggests expanding the partition measurement somewhat, expanding this to two GB has confirmed more practical in our assessments.

Learn how to repair Home windows 10 KB5034441 replace problems via simply resizing the partition

1. Open Command Instructed as an administrator.
2. Kind reagentc /information to determine in case your pc has a unique restoration house (WinRE) and the place it’s.
3. Kind reagentc /disable to show off this restoration house quickly so you’ll be able to alter settings safely.
4. In Command Instructed, input diskpart adopted via checklist disk to look your entire garage drives.
5. You should make a choice your Home windows OS force with sel disk and the force quantity indexed within the terminal.
6. After you run sel disk <OS disk index>, sort checklist section to take a look at the partition’s sections. This permits you to take a look at the partition beneath the OS disk and to find the OS partition.
7. Run the command: shrink desired=2000 minimal=2000
8. You’ll be able to now make a selection the WinRE partition with sel section <WinRE partition index>.
   
9. Word from the editor: If you’re nonetheless at a loss for words, let me simplify it. As proven within the above instance screenshot, first, we want to make a choice partition 3 because the OS partition index. This step received’t erase your number one OS partition, a part of a distinct partition created at the similar quantity as C: Disk. After getting decided on partition 3, apply the remainder directions to finish the method for the OS number one partition. Subsequent, make a selection partition 4 as your WinRE partition. Those partition numbers are explicit to my gadget and will also be other to your software.
10. After working the shrink command and deciding on the WinRE partition with sel section <WinRE partition index>, you’ll be able to now take away it safely with delete partition override.
11. Take a look at in case your force makes use of GPT (more recent) or MBR (older) layout. Search for an asterisk (*) subsequent to “Gpt” after typing checklist disk.
12. For GPT drives, arrange a brand new segment with create partition number one identification=de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac after which gpt attributes=0x8000000000000001.
13. For MBR, use create partition number one identification=27
14. Get it in a position via formatting: layout fast fs=ntfs label=”Home windows RE equipment”
15. Assessment your setup with checklist vol.
16. Go out the garage organizer with go out.
17. Reactivate your restoration setup with reagentc /allow.
18. Ascertain the brand new restoration location with reagentc /information.

We’ve spotted that the above procedure may just fail for some other people on the seventeenth step when they are trying to reactivate their Restoration Parititon with the “Home windows RE symbol used to be now not discovered” error. You’ll be able to attempt to repair problems with WinRE activation via attempting those steps:

1. First, snatch the Home windows 10 ISO report, and mount the ISO report to a force. Head to Command Instructed (admin), and run the command: reagentc /disable
2. You’ll be able to use md c:WinMount command to create a brand new listing, which helps you to mount your Home windows set up report. To mount the picture, run the next command:

   dism /mount-wim /wimfile:E:Sourcesinstall.wim /index:1 /mountdir:C:WinMount /readonly

3. After mounting the picture, we wish to reproduction the restoration recordsdata from the recent ISO symbol on your gadget with the next command.

   xcopy C:WinMountWindowsSystem32Recovery*.* C:WindowsSystem32Recovery /h

As soon as accomplished, run the next command to set the restoration symbol trail:

 reagentc /setreimage /trail C:WindowsSystem32Recovery /goal C:Home windows

In any case, you’ll be able to go back to the seventeenth step and run the command once more: reagentc allow

Microsoft has additionally revealed a PowerShell script to mend the issue mechanically, and you’ll be able to snatch it from our Discord server, however be sure you set up the “Secure OS Dynamic Replace” the use of the Microsoft Replace Catalog earlier than working the PowerShell script.