Windows 10 Upgrade an ASUS Laptop (32G storage)

Hi there,

I have the same problem with an E402S Asus laptop.  It wants 8 gig on the C drive, whatever I do.

Mine has another nice feature now on top of it... it connects to the access point or router with a  cable but blocks 95% of all web sites or doesn't provide internet at all.  When I went on vacation this week, there was no internet connection at all !!!  it worked maybe for 10 minutes the first time and went in internet boycot forgood "connected, no internet".  I once fixed the problem 2 months ago after 12 sleepless nights but I forgot how I did it back then.

This seems to be a bug in the old win 10 that I can't update, haha :-)

It reminds me all of the 'out of memory error' in DOS, yes that's how old I am.  People never learn.

I bought this little thing because I use a web drive and don't need disk space AT ALL.  Only an internet connection.  I even put an extra 250 gig SSD in there just in case I want to look at and store pictures from an SD card. 

Now there's not enough disk space for the operating system itself.  Why does it need 21 gig anyway?  What does it do other then to start up an app and show something on the screen!?  Even my cheap android phone is better at it!

Anyway, I would very much like to downgrade it now to win7.  But how to do that and do I have to pay for a license now?  That would be great :-)

Good luck to all of you with the same problem.  This really sucks doesn't it.

How did your XP install go? 

I have the disks for Windows 7 Home Premium version and I want to try that. 

Has anyone else given up with Windows 10 on the ASUS notebooks and reverted to a previous version of Windows that worked?  

I never liked being forced to upgrade to Windows 10 and reading all these threads (like the one above from Andy Davies) now makes me wonder if I will lose my little Notebook altogether if I actually get the version 1607 to install.......

TIA

DawnH

Replace the hard drive with a larger one !:  This not a possible option on these type of low cost PC's.

But the info on how to install a WIN 10 update using an external connected flash drive to the PC  computer will work as long as one can keep the host PC powered on.

Hi Perry - reading the thread of emails above it seems that getting the install to work only creates further problems!  I don't want the "blue screen of death" every 30 minutes!   Like someone else I bought this Notebook to travel with - a kind of LITE version of my normal Dell laptop.  I don't need it to run high end graphic games, or do major computational analysis.  I just wanted something larger than a smartphone to check my emails, edit Word & Excel documents and to be able to share files via a USB stick (not through the cloud like iPad users have to!)  It came with Win 8.1 and I could have managed with that but the buggers forced the update to Win 10 and this is the consequence....

Dawn in frustration :(