Windows 10: What to do if update KB5042320 fails after I resized my RE partition?

Originally, I was having problems installing the update KB5042320, and I checked online to see that a lot of other people had the same problem. Then, I went through the process of fixing it, and after about 25 minutes I got it to work and successfully resized my RE partition. I then tried to install the update but it was still unsuccessful. I tried restarting my pc, increasing the size even more, and a lot of other stuff. It's been a few months now and it still doesn't work. I checked disk management, and it said healthy partition, and the size was 11.55 GB.I don't know what else to do as I co

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Resize a Partition/Install

Nevermind. Fixed the issue by Resizing the main partition with a live USB linux OS

 

Manually resize partition for KB5034441 not increasing recovery partition

After encountering the KB5034441 update error I decided to use the following support article to increase the size of my windows recovery partition:

KB5028997: Instructions to manually resize your partition to install the WinRE update

I have followed the steps as described however my Recovery partition does not get any larger.

I have:

• disabled WinRE (not seen in the screenshot)
  
• Shrunk the C drive partition (not seen in the screenshot but you can see the 250MB free space on the disk) in the first list disk call
  
• deleted the previous Recovery partiton with 506MB
  
• Created a new Recovery partition with attributes and formatted it
  

But having completed all the steps my Recovery partition is still 506MB and the free space hasn't been reallocated so the update continues to fail.

See my screenshot:





I saw in a (timestamp 4:11) that if the C drive partition is not next to the Recovery partition then there are extra things that need to be done but I do not understand them.

Can someone help guide me through?

PS I don't actually know what the purpose of partition 3 is. In disk management it is called EFI System Partition so I assume it is necessary and I have worked around it.

 

Resize Windows 10 System Partition

Hi Adrain,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

I understand your concern, and we in Community will try to help you in the best possible way we can.

I suggest you to follow the steps below and check if that helps.

• Run Disk Management. Open Run Command (Windows button +R) a dialog box will open and type "diskmgmt.msc".
• In the Disk Management screen, just right-click on the partition that you want to shrink, and select “Extend Volume” from the menu
• Locate your system partition — that’s probably the C: partition. Right-click on it and select “Shrink Volume.” If you have multiple partitions on your hard drive, you could also choose to resize a different partition to free up space.

Hope the information helps. Please let us know if the issue persist and we will be happy to assist you further.