WinRE BitLocker patch fails to install

Microsoft released a WinRE update to patch CVE-2024-20666, a BitLocker security bypass vulnerability. The update promptly failed to install on millions of PCs with error 0x80070643, because the Windows Recovery partition didn’t have enough free space — a partition that Windows itself created and sized. Microsoft’s official guidance? Manually resize your recovery partition using diskpart. Yes, really. They shipped a security fix that requires command-line partition surgery to install, on an OS designed for people who can’t find the Control Panel.