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KB5034441 has led us astray, in a horrible way

Posted on January 22, 2024 at 02:45 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

ISSUE 21.04 • 2024-01-22

PATCH WATCH

By Susan Bradley

What’s with this Windows recovery partition thing?

If you’ve been following along, you know we’ve been discussing the update associated with a BitLocker vulnerability (described in KB5034441) that may require a resizing of the Windows recovery partition to resolve.

Microsoft’s handling of this problem has been so terrible that I was driven to raise the MS-DEFCON level to 1, just the fifth time I’ve considered it necessary.

Read the full story in our Plus Newsletter (21.04.0, 2024-01-22).
This story also appears in our public Newsletter.

Patch Watch CVE-2024-20666, Disk Management, KB5034441, KB5034957, MiniTool Partition Wizard, MS-DEFCON 1, Newsletters, Patch Lady Posts, REAgentC, Recovery Partition, Windows Recovery Environment, WinRE

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