Windows 10 Upgrade an ASUS Laptop (32G storage)

Thanks for the tutorial.  I'm going to try this on my Win 10 tablet.

But c'mon Microsoft.  Is it really that difficult to add an option to download windows updates to a drive  (USB drive, SD card, etc.) other than the system drive??

Hi Stephen,

The instructions that I supplied should have worked, perhaps I should have been more clear as to the exact intricacies of the procedure. I'll post them here again with some additions and bold print to highlight the most important parts to achieve success. I hope that this helps;

1. Visit the Microsoft site and go to Download Windows 10 page.
2. Use the Media Creation tool to download the latest version of Windows 10.
3. Choose not to upgrade now but rather download the ISO file to use to perform the upgrade later (be sure to select the correct Edition and architecture (32bit or 64bit) for your device. (To do this, follow the instructions for Creating media to install on a different PC).
4. Save the ISO to the SD card (or USB stick) (formatted in NTFS, you must reformat the SD card or the USB drive that you will be using to the NTSF format before beginning the download) (a 32GB or above quality brand name SD card or USB drive is recommended).
5. Once the ISO file download is completed to the SD card (or USB drive) go to the resulting SD/USB folder and right click on the ISO file.
6. Then, using a free program (for example WinRAR - www.rarlab.com - or 7zip - www.7-zip.org/) extract all         

    contents of the ISO file to a new folder in the same SD card/USB drive.

7. Then, open the resultant new folder and right click on the setup.exe file and select the "run as administrator" option.
8. Then, choose the Upgrade Now option, the program will then proceed to upgrade (feature update) the installation of Windows 10 in your computer. When prompted, choose to keep your apps and files if/as that is your choice.
9. When the installation program asks for more space, choose once again the SD card/USB stick. (In some     

    cases you may have to click on "Fix Issues", if presented, to be given the choice).

This has worked for thousands of people that are using devises with tiny and/or space restricted SSD's.

If your still having problems after using this exact procedure, let us know, and include as much detailed information as you can concerning, we'll be glad to continue to help you further in resolving the issue.

Good Luck!

-Richard

Thank you for all the information. We've followed this thread to see the progress of the issue. We'd like to know if you tried doing the steps provided by RichardEiler on how to resolve the storage issue. If not, please do so and give us an update on how it goes so we can provide further assistance.

We're just a post away if you need further help.

So far I have tried every suggestion without success.

Windows insists on downloading to the primary drive, which in this case is 32G internal memory.

Thank you for all the information. We've followed this thread to see the progress of the issue. We'd like to know if you tried doing the steps provided by RichardEiler on how to resolve the storage issue. If not, please do so and give us an update on how it goes so we can provide further assistance.

We're just a post away if you need further help.

according to your description, you problem is that your hard drive do not have enough space for you to upgrade ASUS laptop. 

I think you need a larger hard drive. If you still use this hard drive on your computer, it will run out of space sooner or later. Thus, you'd better replace hard drive to larger one first. Then, you can upgrade your computer again.

Thanks, but this is a 32G laptop by design. There is no hard drive to replace. Additional storage can be added via micro SD card but the upgrade will not download to it.