Lack of space on newish laptop

betterlatethannever

Ok Clean up gave me back, what i think, is a decent amount of space.
2.04 GB free of 28.5.
The other drive that was showing (ESP) seems to have disappeared

John_Gray

2 GB isn't enough to do an upgrade. I don't know why manufacturers make these netbooks with so little hard disk space!

Use the tool previously suggested or TreeSize Free, either can tell you how much space is being used in the folders on the C: drive. If you report the larger numbers, people can suggest things you could do.

betterlatethannever

I've done that and i think these are the figures you're after;

Windows 20.2 gb
$WINDOWS~BT 5.1
Recovery 2.8
Pagefilesys 2.3
Users 2.2
Programfiles (x86) 2.1
Prog data 2.0

Then some smaller stuff

Is this any help?

Edit: its just tried to update again, but wasn't able to. Needs 8GB for updates
I'm having meltdown at mo so going to give it a rest for tonight and see if i can get anywhere tomorrow.

John_Gray

You will need to run Disk Cleanup again, preferably following the instructions from Brink in the Windows 10 Forums.

Allow yourself a couple of hours, and work through what he says. At the end, run Treesize Free again and see how much space you have. The cleanup should have got rid of $Windows.$BT and enough other stuff to enable a major update to take place.

One question - does your 'laptop' have a slot to take a plug-in SD card (as ringo suggested above?

AlwaysHere

betterlatethannever wrote: »

I've done that and i think these are the figures you're after;

Windows 20.2 gb
$WINDOWS~BT 5.1
Recovery 2.8
Pagefilesys 2.3
Users 2.2
Programfiles (x86) 2.1
Prog data 2.0

Then some smaller stuff

Is this any help?

Edit: its just tried to update again, but wasn't able to. Needs 8GB for updates
I'm having meltdown at mo so going to give it a rest for tonight and see if i can get anywhere tomorrow.

I'm back. Went out on the bike for a bit.

You can get rid of the $WINDOWS~BT 5.1 GB

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/delete-windows-old-folder/

Firstly, press and hold the Windows/Home key down and whilst doing so press the i key.
At the Settings screen, navigate to System and then About to see which version of Windows 10 is currently installed.

So which version are you on at the moment?

The latest version is here; https://software-download.microsoft.com/pr/Win10_1709_EnglishInternational_x64.iso The link lasts for just twenty four hours.

Previous version is here; https://software-download.microsoft.com/pr/Win10_1703_EnglishInternational_x64.iso

The easiest option for you is to delete the folder indicated above and then use the MediaCreationTool below to create USB Flash drive installation media. Then to run the upgrade from the drive.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

[Deleted User]

$WINDOWS~BT contains the old Windows 10 downloaded upgrade files.. you are safe to delete this.

Installing from a USB stick will save your poor little laptop from filling itself up while trying to download the install files and then expanding them again.

toshi

AndyPix wrote: »

You likely have an acer aspire 1 with 32gb SSD (sic) 2GB ram and a celeron N3050 processor

This is a very low power machine so dont expect great things from it ..

(AndyPix is very polite but he actually said, Don't buy them !! lol)

Coincidentally I have got an Acer Aspire Switch 10 from my friend for repair. (It seems that the battery is dead, I have managed to revive the battery to run windows for a short time. )

Although I have no intention to be offensive to the owners of Acer Aspire Switch 10, but I don't recommend this model. This is not upgradable at all. (see the below, Bad influence from Mobile/Tablet design. No upgradability = disposable design) I don't think 32GB storage is enough to run Windows seriously. I have often seen this problem at MSE forum.

Acer Aspire Switch 10 - Disassembly - SSD HDD RAM Upgrade? Buy Or Not Buy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL8RkDuI84E

I would like to remind this issue, as the shopping season is coming;. If you would spend 200 pound, you can get a far far better decent business refurbished Windows 10 notebook (Dell Latitude, Lenovo Thinkapd, HP Elitebook etc) with 4GB memory & 120GB SSD including 1 year warranty. You should be able to use them for 3-5 years at least comfortably.

No affiliation but reference only.

https://www.encore-pc.co.uk/laptops/windows-laptops

Happy Computing

jshm2

It's actually a Cloudbook model you have. They can be pretty problematic to upgrade -especially considering the SSD and many other components cannot be upgraded. Unless you're handy with a solder gun, I would suggest not going down that route.

In most cases you CANNOT just upgrade to the latest Windows as there will never be more than the 10GB free space Windows requires for the full upgrade. But you should be able to get the other minor updates running just fine.

There are only two ways to upgrade these machines:

Copy your licence key number, make a drive backup, then download and create a USB using the Microsoft MBT, format hard drive and boot using the USB, enter your licence key when asked.

or,

Image the drive, download WSUSOffline update and run onto USB, Use a VM and reimage the SSD.

First option is the easiest one. The second is if you have an enterprise, educational or pirated Windows key.

Mee

I wish I had read this thread first before paying for Aspire E5 11 ES1-132- C8WF with Celeron P N3350 +Win 10 - 1709. Just wasted money on it from Tesco Direct and have seemingly hit the same problem as the OP this afternoon. Shall go and lie down in a dark room...

Update:
Thanks for the advice and to the OP.


Emailed Tesco Direct - they referred it to Technical Support who suggested I contact Acer! :-(
Took it back to the C&C store - they 'phoned CS and they promptly refunded my money.
Now need to look around with a better replacement...

EveryWhere

Mee wrote: »

I wish I had read this thread first before paying for Aspire E5 11 ES1-132- C8WF with Celeron P N3350 +Win 10 - 1709. Just wasted money on it from Tesco Direct and have seemingly hit the same problem as the OP this afternoon. Shall go and lie down in a dark room...

If purchased within the past couple of weeks, send it back for a refund.

Create installation media using the Windows 10 Media creation Tool. Back up any data/programs that you wish to keep. Run a Factory Restore on the ACER. Once completed, run the update from the USB flash installation media that you created earlier.