Microsoft is working to repair a recognized challenge inflicting 0x80070643 errors when putting in the KB5034441 safety replace that patches the CVE-2024-20666 BitLocker vulnerability.
While the safety challenge was resolved throughout this month’s Patch Tuesday, deploying KB5034441 on programs with a Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) partition that is too small will fail and mistakenly present generic ‘0x80070643 – ERROR_INSTALL_FAILURE’ error messages as a substitute of the right CBS_E_INSUFFICIENT_DISK_SPACE error.
As a workaround, till a repair is out there, the corporate offers clients with affected programs detailed—and fairly complicated—directions on how you can resize their WinRE partitions on its assist web site.
If creating a brand new WinRE partition massive sufficient to finish this replace fails, you may run reagentc /allow to re-enable the partition.
“Devices trying to put in the January 2024 Windows Recovery Environment replace (KB5034441) would possibly show an error associated to the scale of the Recovery Environment’s partition. We are engaged on a decision and can present an replace in an upcoming launch,” Microsoft says in an replace to the Windows launch well being dashboard.
“It may be mandatory to extend the scale of the WinRE partition with a view to keep away from this challenge and full the set up. Note that 250 megabytes of free area is required within the restoration partition.”
Script to replace WinRE with BitLocker fixes
When executed, it mounts the WinRE picture, applies an architecture-specific Safe OS Dynamic Update it’s a must to first obtain from the Windows Update Catalog, unmounts the picture, after which reconfigures WinRE for BitLocker service if the BitLocker TPM protector is current.
If you determine to resize the WinRE partition manually, it’s extremely beneficial that you simply again up your knowledge, given that there’s all the time an opportunity that your system’s partitions could also be broken throughout the course of.