Windows tries to install an update that is too large for the standard 500mb recovery partition, and fails every time.
Good News! Microsoft made a powershell patch that works even if the partition is still 500mb…. why couldn’t they just do this in the first place? Oh and it doesn’t register the patch as being installed so now you get to run forever with 1 missing patch. :\/ AND the recovery partition is “Special” so you can’t expand it by right clicking on it in Disk Manager. Ur batting 1000 so far M$.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Extending the raw disk is easy if the PC is a Virtual Machine, In Vmware you can even do it while the VM is running with no adverse affects. but the patch won’t expand the recovery partition to the required size, you need to do that manually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Open CMD or Powershell as Administrator
diskpart<\/p>\n\n\n\n
sel disk 0
list part
(the recovery partition will be the last on the disk and should be 500mb, yours may be 3 instead of 4)
sel part 4
delete part override <\/p>\n\n\n\n
non-uefi:
(if you get an error message goto the UEFI section)
create partition primary id=27 size=1000
format quick fs=ntfs label=\u201dWindows RE tools\u201d
exit<\/p>\n\n\n\n
uefi:
(if you did the non-uefi section successfully, skip this section)
create partition primary id=de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac
gpt attributes =0x8000000000000001
exit<\/p>\n\n\n\n