Windows Windows 10 Creation Tool Workaround?

Hey there, was just wondering if anyone knew of a solution to a small quandary I have.

I currently have Windows 10 on my older Crucial C300 64GB SSD and therefore have vritually no space left on it (3.5GB after clearly a bit of dead wood out). I've bought another Samsung 860 EVO (500GB) to replace this drive and want to create a Windows 10 Creation Tool onto a USB. However I need 8GB of space on the C drive to create this even though I have tons of space on other drives.

So is there another way of doing this without absolutely stripping everything out of the OS to create the 8GB of space?

Cheers,

Plastic

 

Get the ISO?
Save directly to a memory stick, burn to a different stick then?

I use a tool from this site link

 

You can download the ISO without the tool using some user agent spoofery [basically trick the site into thinking you're not on a windows machine]

 

back-up 8GB to a USB drive?

 

Run disk cleanup/storage sense too just be sure... especially if there's a windows.old folder still knocking around from a previous version.

 

and dont forget to run it in administrator otherwise it wont delete the windows crap.

 

Use minitool partition software to clone sdd from one to the other, no need to reinstall. Pretty much done this on all my machines, haven't needed to reinstall windows for years.

 

Clone it would be my suggestion too. Resizing the partitions after is usually what stuffs it all up mind.

 

Partition tool with resize as it migrates, really couldn't be easier.

 

Reduce size of C: then use Clonezilla.

 

Another clone it vote here, unless there's a reason you want a fresh install ? In my experience cloning to a bigger drive is no problem at all, the awkward bit can be if the new drive is smaller. I use Macrium Reflect (free version), but clonezilla and loads of other free tools will do it too.

 

Thanks for all the replies. Managed to delete enough stuff to create the tool and do a clean install on the new SSD.