Microsoft has retired a number of Home windows safety updates launched throughout the January 2024 Patch Tuesday which were inflicting 0x80070643 errors when putting in Home windows Restoration Setting (WinRE) updates.
Redmond first acknowledged this identified concern in January, days after widespread studies from Home windows customers of 0x80070643 errors.
The corporate launched the problematic KB5034441 (Home windows 10 21H2/22H2), KB5034440 (Home windows 11 21H2), and KB5034439 (Home windows Server 2022) updates to repair CVE-2024-20666, a BitLocker encryption bypass flaw that may let attackers entry encrypted information.
This identified concern mistakenly reveals generic ‘0x80070643 – ERROR_INSTALL_FAILURE’ error messages on affected methods as an alternative of the right CBS_E_INSUFFICIENT_DISK_SPACE error if the Home windows Restoration Setting (WinRE) partition is simply too small for the replace to put in.
Following months of investigating the problem and in search of a repair, Redmond introduced in Could that it will not present an automatic repair for the bug inflicting these 0x80070643 replace errors, as an alternative asking customers to manually handle it by increasing their WinRE partitions by 250 MB to accommodate the brand new updates.
“Computerized decision of this concern will not be out there in a future Home windows replace. Handbook steps are obligatory to finish the set up of this replace on units which are experiencing this error,” Microsoft stated.
“The WinRE partition requires 250 megabytes of free area. Units which should not have ample free area might want to enhance the scale of the partition by way of guide motion.”
This Tuesday, Microsoft additionally killed the buggy updates and changed them with KB5042320, KB5042321, and KB5042322, as first noticed by Neowin.
“This replace robotically applies Protected OS Dynamic Replace (KB5034232) to the Home windows Restoration Setting (WinRE) on a operating PC. The replace installs enhancements to Home windows restoration options,” the alternative updates learn.
The corporate offers customers with two choices to organize their WinRE restoration partitions, both to make use of guide steps detailed within the KB5028997 help doc or a devoted script that may automate the method.
“If you want to ensure your machine is obtainable this replace, please comply with the Directions to manually resize your partition or use a pattern script to extend the scale of the WinRE restoration partition,” Redmond additional explains.
“As soon as your partition has ample disk area, click on Begin > Settings > Home windows Replace > Test for updates to have the replace supplied to you after which set up it.”