Cannot install January patches in a healthy W10 22H2

@Mike100
Step by Step!
You have to shrink the C-Partition first! (post #18)
The label is not important. You can change it to "sunshine" if you want.
Drive letters are temporary only and make it easy to do some actions.

@Pentagon
I was curious about the size of the recovery partition, but did not see it. Then I found a way to see the size but noticed it had no label & was hidden. I had no intention of changing the size because from what I’ve seen on the internet a lot of people increased the size but it made no difference. I figured I’d wait for Microsoft to fix the problem.

But now I was curious why no label & why hidden. If having a label is not important I’ll leave that alone. But why does it say Hidden?

dalchina said:

The rule is (from what I've read)
- you need min 250MB free space on the partition
- it must be AFTER C:

Want to do things with partitions? Try a partition manager... unless fully conversant with and confident in using commands.

How do I find out how much free space is on the partition?
Since DiskPart indicates it is hidden there does not seem to be a way to view free or used space.

Mike100 said:

How do I find out how much free space is on the partition?
Since DiskPart indicates it is hidden there does not seem to be a way to view free or used space.

I could have given you the right command to see the free space on that partition. But I didn't do that on purpose! I didn't do that because it's not relevant at all! Only in your mind!
Either you shrink your C-Partition and create a new Recovery Partition or you forget it!

dalchina said:

Use a 3rd party partition manager. Post #4.

Thanks for the reply-

I've seen directions to use Diskpart & assign the Recovery Partition a drive letter in order to un-hide it. That sounded easy enough.

However all the examples of Diskpart that I’ve seen show the Recovery Partition without a drive letter and they were not hidden. Why would I need a drive letter when no one else does? I was hoping there would be a setting in Windows Disk Management that would let me unhide/hide the partition, but could not find such a setting.

I did use MiniTool and the Recovery Partition of 527MB has only 80MB unused space.

At this point I’ll wait & see if Microsoft roll out a working update this month.

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Pentagon said:

I could have given you the right command to see the free space on that partition. But I didn't do that on purpose! I didn't do that because it's not relevant at all! Only in your mind!
Either you shrink your C-Partition and create a new Recovery Partition or you forget it!

Everything I've seen states that 250MB free space is needed on the partition. Not to be argumentative but knowing if there is already 250MB free space seems relevant. Why increase the partition size if there is already enough free space?

dalchina said:

And did you also note that I said:

- it must be AFTER C:

- yours appears to be BEFORE.

I was probably looking at DiskPart where volume 1 is C and volume 2 is Recovery.

In Windows Disk Management, the upper section shows C first but the lower section shows C last. Is there any reason for this inconsistency that I should be aware of?

How risky is moving the Recovery partition? Should the 99MB System partition also be moved after C?

Thanks