Earlier this year, Microsoft promised it was working on fix for "0x80070643 - ERROR_INSTALL_FAILURE that was happening when trying to install Windows 10 KB5034441 update. However, that's not to be.
  • uservoid1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    785·
    2 months ago

    The issue can be resolved by allocating an additional 250 MB of storage space to the recovery partition. Details on how to do that can be found here.

    However, at least on Windows 10, Microsoft has acknowledged that an automatic resolution for this issue will not be released and as such, the only way to fix this is manually.

    So there is a solution and the headline should be “Microsoft admits it can’t automatically fix…”

    • RedWeasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      263·
      2 months ago

      If it can be done manually, I don’t see any reason it can’t be done automatically. Other than just not wanting to allocate the person-power to it.

      • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
        291·
        2 months ago

        Letting the installer autonomously adjust the recovery partition may open up vulnerabilities where malicious software can be placed in recovery. I don’t know how accurate that is, but it makes sense to me, and would be why they want it done on a case by case basis as needed and not just a mass fix to all installs whether they need it or not.

      • uservoid1@lemmy.worldEnglish
        211·
        2 months ago

        Would you like automatic update to mess with your disk partition allocations without requesting explicit permission to do so? As long as searching the error code would give me the explanation and solution I’m Ok with manual fix this time

        • RedWeasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
          131·
          2 months ago

          Me no, but for most users with only windows installed and not dual booting, having it automatically doing it would probably be fine and bailing out when it detects a more advance configuration such as extra partitions would make sense. Then display a message about manual intervention is required or something.

        • Roopappy@lemmy.mlEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          That was my thought. I’m not sure if it’s based in science, but I remember being a huge fan of Windows 2000 back in the day, and Microsoft pushed a final service pack that made it highly unstable in 2005, and refused to update/fix it. My theory was that they were trying to push everyone to Windows XP, but I’m prone to thinking the worst of large corporations.

    • Eugenia@lemmy.mlEnglish
      183·
      2 months ago

      TWO of my laptops were bit by that bug/error. Not one. Two.

      But what they offered was not a real solution. I’m an experienced computer user, and still didn’t wanna mess with that “solution”.

      This was done just to force people to upgrade to a Win11 (and maybe get a new PC too, if their old one couldn’t run Win11). If not that, then simply, incompetence in general.

      It’s all laughable, really.

      • purplemonkeymad@programming.dev
        2·
        2 months ago

        One issue is that some people are still on windows 7 installs that were upgraded. Windows 7 had a large enough partition for then, but the upgrade now needs more. Unfortunately 2009 Microsoft didn’t anticipate that this should be bigger for 2023 installs. Making it larger is a hassle I wouldn’t want to code either.

        • Eugenia@lemmy.mlEnglish
          4·
          2 months ago

          Both my laptops were Win10-native, not upgrades from previous versions.

      • ghostdoggtv@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        I used to have a very nice laptop that had a blue screen error I could never figure out, I wonder if this was it. Actually I still have it 🤔

  • Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    23·
    2 months ago

    This is honestly such a pile of shit from Microsoft. Right…. Grandma is going to resize her partitions with those ridiculously cryptic instructions. She’s totally going to figure out which partition we’re talking about, she’s totally going to open a command line interface as admin, heck she totally even knows to find those instructions. Its hard enough for people to distinguish between “ya that’s windows update, click that button” vs “no that’s a phishing attack, never click that button”

    Now the rest of us who know what we’re doing have to fix everyone’s PCs in the family. Keep pushing everyone to iPads and Linux Microsoft…

      • Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        14·
        2 months ago

        For my 75 year old mother who doesn’t do anything besides Facebook. Ya an iPad is perfect! ;)

        She thinks it’s a full blown computer and it’s impossible to break or install a virus on it. iPads can be surprisingly good for that purpose…

    • darganon@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 months ago

      Oh no, Grandma’s bitlocker will be vulnerable when the attacker gets physical access to her machine!