Windows 10 Upgrade an ASUS Laptop (32G storage)

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

Hi Richard,

I followed all the instructions, but unfortunately it doesn't work. At a certain stage during the procedure, you have to choose whether you take option A (use of internal memory) or option B( extrenal memory, USB stick). When you take option B indeed some 5GB is assigned to the USB stick (of the 32GB available) but the system still asks for additional space in the internal memory. Even after deleting all personal files and uninstalling all software (office, antivirus etc) it still asks for some 260 MB extra on the internal memory. Not much, but it is simply not available as everything that could be uninstalled, is already uninstalled... I tried it a number of times, with deletion if all unnecessary files.

Very frustrating.

Don't understand how it is possible that windows 10, installed by the manufacturer on the asus 32 GB machine, and therefore apparently on a machine that meets the requirements, is unable to install one of its first updates on the machine.  The Asus was bought only three weeks ago, brandnew in a sealed box.

If you know any other method to deal with the problem, I certainly would appreciate it !

Hi,

If you can post a snapshot of your Disk Management window for us to take a look at that could be helpful.

Right-click on the start button and select Disk Management, (it may take a few seconds for the window to populate), have the USB that you are using plugged in as well and that it is visible in the snapshot(s) also.

You can use the Windows 10 Snipping tool to take the snapshot of the window. Take a rectangular snip then give it a name and save it.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4027213/windows-open-snipping-tool-and-take-a-screenshot

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/6102-take-screenshot-windows-10-a.html#option4

You can then include it in your next reply by using the insert image button in the header of the reply box.

We'll be waiting for your next reply.

-Richard

Richard,

thnx for the offer, but after the sixth or seventh attempt I finally managed.

It is necessary to remove all programs, including antivirus, browser, asus-specific software, really everything  and then it works.

After the installation of the update, install all programs again. Takes quite some time.

Now lets hope that future microsoft updates are available in small sizes and can be installed automatically without the tedious proces of first having to uninstall things like browser, antivir, wordprocessing, whatever.

Thanx again for all your info, 

Regards

John

Ok John, very good!

Yes, 3rd party anti-virus applications can cause problems with Windows 10 updates, particularly Feature Updates (Feature Updates are basically an upgrade type of installation of a new operating system, pretty much just like, for example, upgrading from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10, these are quite large). Here is a link that may be of interest to you;

https://www.askvg.com/guide-things-to-do-after-installing-feature-update-in-windows-10/

The next Feature Update hopefully will/may be better able to handle installation onto the small main drive devices.

I was interested to see your disk management to see if there is an OEM recovery partition present that could be eliminated to increase the available space, as well as some other things. If not, the next step would have been to do what you did or to perform a clean install of Windows 10 version 1709.

Good Job John, I'm glad that you got it figured out for your device.

-Richard

Like I said in an earlier comment post...

You do not need the auto-update for Windows 10 as this seems to be causing the majority of issues.

Just grab yourself a Flashdrive and connect it to a USB outlet, go into your Control Panel, select Windows Updates, search for updates and when it finds them you will have access to your Flashdrive to install the new updates.

You don't need to remove any software!

Job done!