Microsoft promises fix for Windows 10 patch whose installation often fails

Microsoft is working on a fix for Windows 10 security update KB5034441. Due to a bug, many users’ recovery partitions are not large enough to install the update. Until then, users should expand the partition themselves as a workaround.

If users’ recovery partition is not large enough, they will see the error code 0x80070643 ERROR_INSTALL_FAILURE, writes Microsoft. According to Microsoft, 250MB of free space on the recovery partition is required to successfully install the patch, although some users report that the installation fails even with more free space. The default Windows 10 recovery partition is around 500MB.

Initially, Microsoft did not indicate that there would be a fix for this problem, but only suggested that users delete the WinRE partition as a workaround. had to enlarge manually. This is not without risk and may cause the PC to no longer boot at all. Moments later the company came with two PowerShell scripts that can do this automatically, one for Windows 10 versions 2004 and later and one for versions 1909 and earlier.

The security update KB5034441 fixes the CVE-2024-20666Fixed a vulnerability that allows attackers to bypass BitLocker encryption on Windows 10 systems. This may allow them to access encrypted user data, although this requires physical access to the PC.