Windows 10 Fall Creators Update out 17th Oct

TonyMMM

Like many updates - if you have Win10 running on a tablet/notebook with limited hard drive capacity (32Gb on mine ) you can have problems .... the update will fail because of lack of drive space, even though in my case there is a second 32Gb storage card and a 500Gb drive in the detachable keyboard (so not the C drive,).

It is possible to work around it, but they don't make it easy. I have updated my notebook, took about 90mins from start to finish and it seems to be working smoothly, but haven't noticed any real benefits yet.

My other machines still running Win7 and Win8.1 .... both working perfectly, and much preferred to Win10 (which only really makes any sense on a touchscreen device).

pappa_golf

was blaming the update for lack of videos in facebook , however its slimjet that had updated and is now slow and useless ,

Browntoa

Did it on a median laptop , mouse stopped working and hanging intermittently when on battery , could only get it working by hitting enter. Was fine on charger though ?

Rolled back and working fine

Dandytf

TonyMMM wrote: »

Like many updates - if you have Win10 running on a tablet/notebook with limited hard drive capacity (32Gb on mine ) you can have problems .... the update will fail because of lack of drive space, even though in my case there is a second 32Gb storage card and a 500Gb drive in the detachable keyboard (so not the C drive,).

It is possible to work around it, but they don't make it easy. I have updated my notebook, took about 90mins from start to finish and it seems to be working smoothly, but haven't noticed any real benefits yet.

My other machines still running Win7 and Win8.1 .... both working perfectly, and much preferred to Win10 (which only really makes any sense on a touchscreen device).

Interesting I have Asus 32gb+scandisk 32 gb flash usb.
I haven’t been able to install any of the big win10 updates, if it is possible, care to share your instructions.

TonyMMM

Dandytf wrote: »

Interesting I have Asus 32gb+scandisk 32 gb flash usb.
I haven’t been able to install any of the big win10 updates, if it is possible, care to share your instructions.

You need to use a USB stick or external drive and the Windows Media Creation tool

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-install-any-major-update-windows-10-low-storage-devices

Dandytf

TonyMMM wrote: »

You need to use a USB stick or external drive and the Windows Media Creation tool

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-install-any-major-update-windows-10-low-storage-devices

Excellent thanks.
2 usb drives required, I currently have 1.
Maybe a purchase next few days,

economic

have a desktop i5 16gb ram, nvidia 1070 8gb, 250gb SSD, 1TB HDD.

installed the update within 20mins!

Jivesinger

TonyMMM wrote: »

You need to use a USB stick or external drive and the Windows Media Creation tool

https://www.windowscentral.com/how-install-any-major-update-windows-10-low-storage-devices

I have tried the method of attaching a USB drive with some free space before, but my experience was that it didn't acknowledge the attached drive, so it didn't help. As mentioned those 32GB devices are a pain to upgrade.

Jivesinger

My main advice for anyone planning to try the upgrade before the computer naturally updates itself would be to make sure you have a good backup image first.

The main problems are likely to be device drivers where the new Windows version tries to use the drivers in new and different ways which aren't compatible with the driver. This is especially an issue in old kit where the drivers aren't being updated.

For a few of these, Microsoft will be aware and stop the computer from updating itself automatically until the driver issues are fixed.

TonyMMM

Jivesinger wrote: »

I have tried the method of attaching a USB drive with some free space before, but my experience was that it didn't acknowledge the attached drive, so it didn't help. As mentioned those 32GB devices are a pain to upgrade.

It isn't just the space - I used the media creation tool to create the setup files on the external drive (could also be a usb stick) and ran it from there. It is a pain, but it did work.