Microsoft has retired a number of Home windows safety updates launched in the course of the January 2024 Patch Tuesday which were inflicting 0x80070643 errors when putting in Home windows Restoration Surroundings (WinRE) updates.
Redmond first acknowledged this identified problem in January, days after widespread stories 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 knowledge.
This identified problem mistakenly exhibits generic ‘0x80070643 – ERROR_INSTALL_FAILURE’ error messages on affected programs as a substitute of the proper CBS_E_INSUFFICIENT_DISK_SPACE error if the Home windows Restoration Surroundings (WinRE) partition is just too small for the replace to put in.
Following months of investigating the difficulty 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 a substitute asking customers to manually handle it by increasing their WinRE partitions by 250 MB to accommodate the brand new updates.
“Automatic resolution of this issue won’t be available in a future Windows update. Manual steps are necessary to complete the installation of this update on devices that are experiencing this error,” Microsoft mentioned.
“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.”
This Tuesday, Microsoft additionally killed the buggy updates and changed them with KB5042320, KB5042321, and KB5042322, as first noticed by Neowin.
The brand new updates will solely be provided in case your WinRE restoration partition has sufficient free area to accommodate the adjustments, stopping the 0x80070643 errors from being displayed.
“This update automatically applies Safe OS Dynamic Update (KB5034232) to the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) on a running PC. The update installs improvements to Windows recovery features,” the alternative updates learn.
The corporate gives customers with two choices to organize their WinRE restoration partitions, both to make use of handbook steps detailed within the KB5028997 help doc or a devoted script that may automate the method.
“If you want to verify your system is obtainable this replace, please observe the Directions to manually resize your partition or use a pattern script to extend the dimensions of the WinRE restoration partition,” Redmond additional explains.
“Once your partition has sufficient disk space, click Start > Settings > Windows Update > Check for updates to have the update offered to you and then install it.”
