My Laptop Drive does not have enough space to upgrade to 1709

Have read a couple of articles I found that my laptop a HP Pavilion X2 with only 32 GB drive did not show the upgrade, so using the Windows 10 update assistance I found the issue is I need 8 GB of free space, I have a 32 GB SD card (D drive) that has my data, so that does not clog my C drive.
Having carried out the disk clean up, and remove unnecessary programmes and apps I still do not have enough space.
The laptop originally came with 8.1 lite, but I do not seem to be able to fine 10 lite, so what are my options:
1) Don't upgrade
2) Delete all my programmes and apps and upgrade.
3) Wipe the drive and upgrade

Both 2 & 3 will mean reinstalling programmes, but would a clean install be better, and should I be looking at W10 N?

Thanks in anticipation for some creative thinking.

Make sure the OS is compressed. That will buy you a couple of GB free space. In a command prompt (Admin), and maybe in a powershell (admin) run:

compact /compactos:always

If the OS was not compacted, it will take a while to finish.

dalchina said:

Hi, just a thought- if your device is already running Win 10 (and it seems the X2 can run it/has been supplied with it- would you actually gain anything by upgrading? There are a number of small quirks and oddities reported by some people- see the forum threads for 1709- I would suggest even if it's feasible to update yours, it's worth waiting a couple of months until the first major update comes out.

Note Windows.old will be created and automatically deleted after 10 days - about as big as your existing Windows folder.

Also note MS tries to delay offering Win 10 builds to PCs where there may be a risk. (And phases the roll-out over a couple of months or more anyway).

Many thanks, good idea, but I thought I would NavyLCDR's idea a go.

NavyLCDR said:

Make sure the OS is compressed. That will buy you a couple of GB free space. In a command prompt (Admin), and maybe in a powershell (admin) run:

compact /compactos:always

If the OS was not compacted, it will take a while to finish.

Carried out the compact, and at first it said it would take 22 hours, in the end it took 1 hr 45 mins and gained about 6 GB.

P.S. after typing this out, I clicked solved, and lost my post as I had not actually posted the response more LFE!!

Try to cleanup more space using the below method:

How to Enable Hidden Options in Windows’ Disk Cleanup Tool


Disk Cleanup Ready Made Short Cut

1) Run Command Prompt as Admin
2) Copy/Paste the following command in the CMD Window:

Code:

cleanmgr /sageset:65535 /sagerun:65535

3) The Disk Clean Up tool will now launch with extra options, select all the categories you want to clean then press the OK Button
** If you want to run Disk Cleanup this way regularly, you can also create a shortcut. Just right-click on your Desktop (or any folder where you want to save the shortcut) and choose New > Shortcut. In the Create Shortcut window, paste (or type) the following text into the “Type the location of the item” box and then click Next.

Code:

%SystemRoot%\System32\cmd.exe /c Cleanmgr /sageset:65535&Cleanmgr /sagerun:65535

Give your shortcut a meaningful name and then click Finish
Source: How-To-Geek

@Snappy Phoenix
Many thanks, always useful