Can't update Windows 10 on my tablet...

pumaz

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I have a 8" Toshiba encore 2GB / 32GB tablet with 128GB MicroSD with 17.4GB free on C: and over 80GB free on MicroSD. Despite all this space I can't update Windows 10 version 10240 to 14393. When I hit update now it says CPU, Memory and Disk Space OK then I click next and it says not enough disk space :(

I've tried running disk cleanup but no joy!

I really don't want to do a wipe and re-install if I can help it.

Any ideas?
 
You don't have enough space. The old Windows folder will 20gb+ so while it probably would have enough space to update, it doesn't have enough space to update and keep the existing Windows.old folder, which as far as I know you have no way of disabling until after installation, unless you do a clean install.

To be honest it's a pretty dumb message to say that "disk space ok" when there clearly isn't enough disk space.
 
I've just ran the media creation tool and while slow it seems to be working, you'd think Microsoft would have sorted something out for all these tablets with only 32GB storage, surely someone must have flagged it up as a problem.
 
My Toshiba Click 10 comes with just 32GB main storage and Windows 10 by default :s MS seems to have not really put any thought into how 10 runs on a tablet though. Pretty sure mine had 10240 out the box and I had no problem updating from that though.
 
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My Linx 7 tablet gave me the option to use the SD card as storage space for the upgrade. Worked a treat.

Not sure why you didn't get that option?
 
BuToNz said:
My Linx 7 tablet gave me the option to use the SD card as storage space for the upgrade. Worked a treat.

Not sure why you didn't get that option?
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Because it won't be the upgrade which doesn't have enough space, it will be the backup Windows.old folder that will be stopping it from installing, and it won't move that to the SD card (it isn't a simple folder).
 
As ButoNz said did you not have the windows needs more space message specifically per here
(I have a linx too, 16GB int + 64GB flash I am hoping will upgrade to Anniv like this).
If you did not get message maybe it thought there would be enough space and you need to actually eat some space on boot disc first, so it will give msg.
 
Wonder if it is possible to do something crazy like junction link the softwaredistribution folder or wherever it downloads the update to so as to preserve space on the C drive - though not sure even a hard link or NTFS symbolic link would work outside of the Windows environment which some of the update procedure is processed in.
 
For what it's worth guys I managed to get my tablet upgraded via the media creation tool and although it took a while it worked. My advise is if you get this storage message and you've done everything you can to free up space then just use the tool :)
 
A little late to the party, but I struggled upgrading my Dell Venue 11 Pro last week. Would download, prepare to install, restart to continue installation and constantly fail at this point.

Only thing I could to was a fresh install of Windows 10 :/
 
Had similar with my Toshiba Click 10 on recent updates (though not to AU which seems to be unavailable for that device) it would keep downloading updates then try to apply some of them, tell me that earlier updates had to be applied, then restart and go straight to the later updates and fail again with the same problem over and over, eventually managed to get it past that then it sat there for a few hours at 0% downloading while thrashing CPU and RAM :s
 
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