Windows 10 Upgrade an ASUS Laptop (32G storage)

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Just wanted to share my experience. I have an ASUS laptop E200HA with 32G hard drive.

(So I made the same mistake as most people on this thread by buying this damn thing for my wife.)

I managed to update to version 1803 successfully and still have free 9G on (C) drive.

1. Using a different PC, I downloaded Media Creation Tool from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
2. Using the tool, I made a (bootable) USB 16G flash drive (formatted in NTFS). 

Alternatively, you can download a ISO file, unpack it, and copy to the flash drive.

(It won't be bootable, but you will not need that feature.)

3. I moved all my files to a SD card, but I left a few applications on the main (C) drive

including Office 2000, Chrome, e-mail client, and Adobe Acrobat.

4. I inserted my USB flash drive and double clicked the setup.exe file.

I chose the option to keep all my files, apps, and setting.

It told me that I had enough free memory (10G) on the USB drive, but I needed

about 4G free memory on drive (C), which as you know is hard to find. 

This is how I found it.

I went to (C) -> Windows -> SoftwareDistribution -> Download

and emptied it. I was allowed to proceed with installation.

5. Installation went fine without any problems. It took a long time, perhaps, 7 or 8 hours. I deleted Windows.old folder and now have about 9G free on (C)

That's all.

Good luck,

Alex

My ASUS E200H laptop is pre-installed with Win 10 but only has 32G storage with an additional 32G micro SD card.

The Win 10 upgrade is demanding an additional 8G storage which I cannot do, therefore the upgrade will not download. I cannot make the download directly to the SD card.

How can I upgrade?

Thanks

I had the problem with a 32gig Asus E402S, having an empty 256 gig SSD as well...

It had an old version of Win 10 and the disk was too full.  There was nothing to delete and the notebook started to crash.

Update was not possible.

I downloaded the install files via another PC onto an SD card this week to do a fresh update/install of Win10.  I didn't use the ISO, it putted all the files and folders on the SD card.

After starting the install from the SD card in the notebook, it started checking the notebook and that took a lot of time.  It asked if I wanted to keep my files and settings or not, I indicated 'keep nothing' to save disk space but still it needed 2 extra gig of free space on my C drive, while I indicated the 256gig D-drive as extra space for the install.

I spent a few hours then looking for files to delete.  As times passed, I noticed that Windows created more junk to take away free disk space again :-)  After a while I noticed some old update files somewhere in the Windows folder and 1 of them was 1.3 gig !  When I deleted that one, install was ready to go.  It started a fresh install without  a hickup.

Then a miracle happened.  When the new win10 home started up, there was 15gig of free disk space!  I could delete the Old Windows folder too with another 2.5gig of extra space.  With a few small things + office365, I now have 12gig of free space again and it runs great.

I lost the previous settings but since my files are on Onedrive and I use web mail, it was very easy to set it up as before.

Let's see how long it takes now before Windows eats this 12 gig again.

Since I am quite old, I still prefer my trusted office 2000 and installed excel and Access 2000 on this notebook too next to office 365.

It still runs good under Win10!  Excel starts up in a blink of the eye and does not have this crappy ribbon that only takes away screen space and confuses me all the time.  The same with Access, the user interface today sucks big time, 2K was Much much much better :-)  When you use it a lot like me this is important.

Good luck!

Bob

You have exactly the same Asus as I have and have exactly the same problem that I had.

As I mentioned above I followed the instructions given by Richard Eiler on Jan 22 2018 in these posts but I downloaded the ISO file first to the SD Card inserted in a desktop PC that I have (an Intel i7 500GB storage 12GB RAM) so there were no lack of space issues. I also extracted the file in this PC before I transferred the SD Card to the Asus laptop to carry out the upgrade. As I said this worked successfully.

So if you have access to another more powerful PC and follow what I did it should work.

Good Luck

My ASUS E200H laptop is pre-installed with Win 10 but only has 32G storage with an additional 32G micro SD card.

The Win 10 upgrade is demanding an additional 8G storage which I cannot do, therefore the upgrade will not download. I cannot make the download directly to the SD card.

How can I upgrade?

Thanks