Microsoft has finally pulled the botched Windows updates that caused the 0x80070643 error message for thousands. It’s insane that it took Microsoft about seven months to even acknowledge that three updates it released in the past—Windows 10 KB5034441, Windows 11 KB5034440, and Windows Server 2022 KB5034439—were a broken mess.
Microsoft shipped Windows 10 KB5034441 and other updates in January in an attempt to address potential issues with the Windows Recovery Environment. In the same week, Microsoft confirmed that there were installation problems with KB5034441, KB5034440, and KB5034439, where the updates could fail to install with a 0x80070643 error.
For those unware, installing KB5034441 or the other two updates was mandatory, as they patched a critical BitLocker bypass flaw (CVE-2024-2066).
Unfortunately, a Windows bug incorrectly affected some devices with an error message “‘0x80070643 – ERROR_INSTALL_FAILURE”, which means lack of space on the recovery partition, but people with sufficient storage also encountered the bug.
“The WinRE partition requires 250 megabytes of free space. Devices which do not have sufficient free space will need to increase the size of the partition via manual action,” Microsoft previously said. The company published a long workaround that manually increases the size of the partition.
This issue affected thousands of users, with one of the affected users explaining the problem in a Feedback Hub post:
“After resolving the lack of free disk space on my recovery partition, the patch appears to apply with a success message in the updates log. However, it keeps re-applying every time I check for updates. Also, when I mount the recovery image and search for packages with a date of January…
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