Windows 10: More disk space used by Windows 10 with upgradation

Hi,

When I purchased a Windows 10 laptop. I believe it was Windows 10 1809 version in the laptop.
C Drive size is 100GB. That time, free space was between 50-55GB.

Since that day I didn’t install additional application in the laptop.
Now it’s upgraded to Windows 10 2004 with free space 22GB.

On another side, I installed Windows 10 2004 in another computer as fresh installation with bootable USB stick.
Initially I taken C Drive size as 20GB and Windows 10 2004 installed successfully with free space of 8 GB.
It means, Windows 10 2004 taken only 12 GB in case of fresh installation.

But in case of upgradation, it’s taking more disk space.

Please let me know, how to diagnose and fix it without fresh installation?

With Regards
InTechSys

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Windows 10 upgrade rant..

The free space shouldn't prevent you from upgrading to built 1607. I manually upgraded my own laptop which had only 9gigs free space left on the system drive.

I unzipped the Windows 10 Pro anniversary edition ISO on my D drive, and started the upgrade process from there. At one point the installer complained about not having enough free space on the main drive, i just had to point it to the D drive to proceed to the next step. Now the rollback installation is stored there and doesn't clog up the C drive anymore.

In your case you could insert a large sdcard to act as the required rollback drive, i'm pretty sure it would do the trick.

Oh and by the way, if you want to further compress your System files:

• do a search Command Prompt, right-click it, and select Run as administrator.
• Type COMPACT.EXE /CompactOS:always and hit Enter.

You'll will gain anything from 2 to 4 gigs free space after it's done.

 

hard disk space

Hello,

Taking into consideration that the free space is shrinking fast, it is possible that your system is creating restore points. To
delete restore points except for the recent one, simply follow the steps below:

• From the Cortana search box, type Disk Cleanup and click on the first result.
• Once the Disk Cleanup window appears, select the
  More Options tab.
• Under the System Restore and Shadow Copies column, click on the
  Clean up... button.

Once done with the steps, see if your disk space has expanded.

If you have further questions, please let us know.

 

Windows 10 upgrade rant..

the machine "without enough disk space" has a 128 gig micro sd card installed as well as its 32 gig system drive.. it shows up as drive D..

the problem is windows and its totally useless error message.. it could for example (when its aware there is limited system drive space) use the additional drive to download and store its extra upgrade stuff.. or before it starts it could give the user the option of doing this.. it does none of what it should do and comes across as a total kludge..

i consider myself computer savvy and got around the problem in the end.. the average user would not have.. windows advice is pathetic and utterly useless..

my machine is a Linx 1010 tablet.. 32 gig of solid state drive space and 2 gigs of ram.. bought about three weeks back with its keyboard dock for £140.. a very good value for money portable "browsing" machine with a good battery life.. they come with win 10 installed and there must be loads of them out there..

used with care the 32 gig system disk is enough for what the machines are.. however it dosnt seem enough for windows enforced updates.. the problem is windows updates not the machines.. he he..

trog

ps.. i have three more win 10 laptops waiting for the adversary (typo left in) upgrade.. none of them are short of system drive space so should not have problems.. i would not lay money on it though.. he he

my main machine took the upgrade basically okay but borked my nvidia gpu drivers which i had to reinstall to get my SLI back.. it also borked my recrium back up system which had to be patched.. an old dell machine i have took the upgrade with no problems.. windows seems to know how to cope with old dell machines.. *Smile