Microsoft has informed users about an error that may appear after installing the April 2025 update for the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE), identified as KB5057589.

The infamous "0x80070643 - ERROR_INSTALL_FAILURE" issue is back with one of the new Windows 10 updates KB5048239. Thankfully, there is a fix.

Microsoft quietly released a new update for Windows 10 users under KB5001716. It is however causing issues installing with 0x80070643 error similar to KB5034441.

It's not like there aren't already updates performed by Windows Update that basically wipe the OS and take 30 minutes or more to install, and just installing a new WinRE version takes only moments.

In recent months, Microsoft has urged users to ignore certain error messages that weren’t what they seemed, most notably back in April with WinRE error code 0x80070643 as well as in July with ...