Help locked out with no recovery options

8 GB flash drives can be used.

HELEN07 said:

... win10 wants me to install the 8gb download tool on a 4GB win7 laptop

4gb is your memory size, has nothing to do with installing from 8gb thumb drive or 32gb, for that matter.

Make space on your C drive is windows solution which kind of suggests i don't have enough space , the only programs i can delete are basic windows .

Please update the progress.

And i'm back online with my MSI and Ubuntu so thank you everyone for your helpful comments , I'm sure win10 works for some but I sincerely hope this is the very last question i ever ask myself or anyone else about windows .

Great.

You're welcome.


If you want to test and tune up the computer:

Run: Tuneup.bat - Click here to go to the BSOD batch repository to download and run this batch file.


Run HD Sentinel: (free or trial edition)
Hard Disk Sentinel - HDD health and temperature monitoring
https://www.hdsentinel.com/
For each drive post images of these tabs into the thread:
Overview tab
Temperature
SMART
Disk performance

Take Screenshot in Windows 10 Windows 10 General Tips Tutorials
Take Screenshot in Windows 10



Free Up Drive Space in Windows 10

I decided it would be sensible to put win10 on the other flash drive i bought as well while its all fresh in mind but 4 hours later i give up and i have to accept there is no way to install windows unless you already have windows installed

There are dual boot options: Ubuntu / Windows
Dual Boot Windows 10 with Windows 7 or Windows 8

I have downloaded it from this page https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/soft...d/windows10ISO about 8 times and eventually i actually got one of the downloads to open in like partition options and i clicked on them every which way i could hoping somehow somewhere a box would pop up offering OK , RUN , anything but got nothing .

Just found it again by right clicking - open with other application - disk image writer then - cannot restore image of size 0