Windows 10: Not enough space for upgrade

Hi,
I'm in possession of a Lenovo Yoga 300, which has Win 8.1 on it. I offered to upgrade it to Win 10 for the owner (the notification says it's fine for this). However, the SSD is only ~20Gb, and after a disk cleanup has only approx 5 or 6Gb's free. Windows upgrade said it needed more (16 free if I recall).
How do I get around this? There's no optical drive, so would I be able to use a USB thumb drive to install 10, would that get around it? If I could get Win 10 on it through upgrade procedure, I could format the SSD and do a clean install via the USB again. If I'm right? Or do I tell them they're stuck with 8.1?

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Keep saying not enough space for Window 10 upgrade

Hi JoJo,

I realize the inconvenience you are experiencing with Windows 10. I will certainly help you.

This issue might occur if there is change in Windows update settings.

To assist you better, please provided us the information below:

• From what version of windows are you trying to upgrade to Windows 10?
• How are you trying to upgrade to Windows? Is it through Windows updates or Media Creation tool?

I suggest you use the Media Creation Tool in the below link and choose Upgrade option to upgrade to Windows 10. Before upgrading to Windows 10, I suggest you to take a backup of important files and folders to the external drive.

Download Windows 10

Also I recommend you to free up some more memory space using disk cleanup and check if it helps.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17421/windows-free-up-drive-space

Please get back to us with an update on issue with upgrading to Windows 10, we will be happy to help.

Thank you.

 

Keep saying not enough space for Window 10 upgrade

Hi everyone, i tried to upgrade my hp laptop to window 10 however it says 20GB is required for the upgrade, i thought i don't have enough space so I moved some of my files to an external hard disk. After that my local PC drive shows out free space as 25GB
but still, when I go with the upgrade, it still tells me not enough space!!

Can anyone tell me what should I do?

Thanks.

 

the reason you do not have enough space for the upgrade - is because windows 10 will rewrite the current OS and place the old OS in the Windows.old folder... Thus you really will have 2 OS's on current disk...

If you have a SDCard insert it into the bay and proceed with the upgrade..
windows should use the SDCard and move the windows.old folder over to it...

 

I don't own an SD card, only a thumb drive that's 4Gig. That's my only option.

 

That Lenovo is a Tablet and it should have a slot for an SDHC or MicroSDXC card, my Dell Venue 8 has 32GB drive and I added a 64GB MicroSDXC card.

 

I don't possess an SD card. That's why I'm wondering if it's possible to do it via a USB stick.

 

You can create a Windows 10 installation USB:
USB Flash Drive - Create to Install Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

Clean everything off the "disk" on the tablet you can - I think this all works under Windows 8.1 as well as Windows 10:
Disk Cleanup - Open and Use in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

Reset Windows updates, I also think this works in Windows 8.1:
Windows Update - Reset in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

I would NOT recommend doing a clean install until you obtain more storage resources because you will probably need to save drivers from the tablet first, and it would be a good idea to save an image of the "disk" first also. I put "disk" in quotes because it is really eMMC and not a disk. Although really - it is very highly recommended that you make an image of the existing "disk" first before upgrading anyway.

Hopefully that cleans enough off the "disk" on the tablet and you can run setup.exe from the USB flash drive to upgrade to Windows 10.

 

I see, thanks. I think I'm going to buy an SD card for it, 32 or 64, and do it that way, it could do with extra storage anyway, 20Gb is nothing. They better appreciate it! *Smile

Thanks for the replies, I appreciate the assistance.

 

Might want to read my experience upgrading tablets:
Important precautions to take before upgrading to Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

 

One of the biggest problems with Tablets - is that they are touch..
In order to get input to the tablet - you need to install the drivers, First...

This is true for the OS and the Recovery..

Doing an upgrade - will preserve the drivers for the OS, but not the recovery...

 

That's true. Most tablets have a micro-USB port, so it is always good to have a micro-USB OTG adapter to connect a mouse and/or keyboard.

 

Thanks a lot for the help folks. The precautions link especially, very useful to know.

I had no such problems upgrading my pc, but I'm guessing these laptop/tablets are more fussy. At least I'm not going into it blind.

A 64Gb SD card has been purchased, awaiting delivery. *Smile

 

Ok I have my SDXC card in the laptop/tablet, 128GB. How exactly do I use it to get Win 10 installed?

I've backed up the Win8.1 with Bing to the SD Card, and backed up the drivers to a folder too. As per a link above.

 

Copy the Windows 10 ISO file to the SD Card. Run disk cleanup using option 2 here and check every option:
Disk Cleanup - Open and Use in Windows 10 - Windows 10 Forums

Mount the ISO file stored on the SD Card and run setup.exe from the virtual drive letter that gets created.