Hello I help a lady setup a new W10 laptop I was unable to do anything with it , Windows wants to do it first update but they fail do to a lack of space
the laptop has 32 Gb storage and windows is taking up 29 Gb and it not letting me free up any space
so right now we are on hold she going to pickup a micro sd card to see if it help but what else can we do ?
Welcome to the forum. Has she got any software she doesntuse you could remove. Is there a windows old folder as thats part of an upgrade which can leave 10gig+ run disk clean when its run then select system files and let it run again
The Laptop is band new just out of the box W10 preinstall she nothing added to it and it not letting me free up space she got a 32 Gb SD card we ging to try tomorrow but the laptop only has a 32 Gb hard drive
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There must be additional software or bloatware installed.
Run the beta log collector and post a zip into the thread:
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Open the website for the computer manufacturer > enter the product or serial number or model > select the operating system > view drivers > post a URL or hyperlink into the thread.
There is a Windows build upgrade scheduled to be available by windows updates on May 8 from build 1709 to build 1803. There is an early bird download option that is scheduled to start tomorrow.
So in addition to the typical updates you may want to troubleshoot the upgrade instead.
This should be easy as it is a brand new computer and a clean install can be performed to install Windows 10 build 1803.
Open a Microsoft account so that you have a backup for any operating system problems.
The clean install can be done with a flash drive.
Find a flash drive that you can format ( > or = 8 GB)
On or after May 1, 2018 create a bootable Windows 10 iso:
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the spec are Direkt-Ten slim laptop DTLAPC-14-1, Intel Atom , The laptop has 4GB of RAM and 32 GB of storage Would doing system recovery help or adding the SD card help, With the SD card should it be formatted to Fat 32 or NTFS will window see it as part of C Drive
the spec are Direkt-Ten slim laptop DTLAPC-14-1, Intel Atom , The laptop has 4GB of RAM and 32 GB of storage Would doing system recovery help or adding the SD card help, With the SD card should it be formatted to Fat 32 or NTFS will window see it as part of C Drive
hello still at it on this thing trying to expand C: drive with a Sd card but to do this I need to cut out some space from C: drive but the best that I can get is a total of 7 Gb and need more
try compressing the drive got nothing gain.
any one has any other ideas and why would they sell a computer with no free space ?
Most of the time you need to use a USB flash drive for the extra space for the update, not an SD card. I don't know if FAT32 v. NTFS format matters.
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