So my Win8.1 system is offering me the transfer to Win10. Nice. I reset my laptop back to it's initial settings. There wasn't much on it and it was behaving weird anyway. Factory reset. Naked Win8.1 without anything, downloads Win10 installer by itself, good. Win10 Installer runs, and says....not enough disk space to install. The naked Win8.1 plus Win10 installer uses 14GB...of my 20GB available space SSD. And Win10 needs 8.5GB free diskspace to install. I'm going crazy
Oh great. I've used the cleanup function. And compressed the drive. ... .. . Now there's 1,2 GB LESS space. Maybe I'm old enough to buy my first Apple...can't get any worse.
The Windows 10 upgrade keeps your entire Windows 8 install in order to provide the rollback function. If you're trying to cram everything onto a tiny 20GB drive, you'd be better off doing a fresh install (the Windows 10 download will have an option to create boot media) than an in-place upgrade.
Lol Wouldn't it be easier to just buy a bigger drive and clone over the old one then you'll be good to go.
Well, it's "hybrid" laptop, meaning it's a tablet with a detachable laptop base. As such, nothing in the tablet part is servicable. So no drive-swapping unfortunately. The 20GB drive is actually a 32GB drive, but some idiot thought it smart to put the 8GB recoverypartition on the tiny SSD instead of the big 500gb spinning drive in the base. Resulting in ~20GB usable diskspace for C:\ I have created a recoverymedium which in theory lets me delete the recoverypartition, but only if the manufacturer lets you, which of course they don't. A clean install would be preferable (together with kicking the win8.1 recoverypartition) But the win10 download will need to install first and create a serial or a registration or the like before i can make a boot media, no?
That sounds like the whole thing was set up wrong: typically if you;ve got a 500GB spinner and a teeny-tiny SSD the thing is supposed to be using SRT: everything gets installed to the HDD, and the SSD acts as a dynamically updated cache. Boot from a USB device (e.g. the Win 10 install media), wipe everything and start from scratch. ::EDIT:: whoops, missed that the 500gb drive was detachable. Just slag the recovery partition from a USB boot drive, if you've got the USB drive you don;t need the partition anyway.
you could clone the current ssd using HD clone so that you have a backup should it all go pete tong boot from a bootable disk to cmd prompt not windows diskpart, select disk 0then clean you should be able to then install a clean windows 10, but yes you would need to install windows 10 before deleting win8
Thx. so far, no luck. It's noticed the diskspace is still too small, and offers to use a different medium for installing win10. So I've used an SD card, and that works well, untill it tries to boot. It asks me to select a medium but there's no choice available. Wouldn't be a big problem (I could save it to usb and make that bootable), but it only asks ONCE, then the entire donload-prepare for install-setup starts again. Download takes ages, Prepare-for-install takes hours, and I've only got limited time in the evening. Not to mention my provider will probably limit me sometimes now that I'v started redownloading 3.5Gigs three times in three days So far I've been at it for well over 8 hours (mostly waiting)...userfriendly my **** (bottom)
Ah, now it started to tell me that I cannot install Win10 currently, as everything is to busy, please come back later. On further news, the BIOS lacks the possibility to boot from anything other than the SSD, this is going to suck.
