Upgrading EMMC storage on laptop

lawrence281 · 8 Feb 2016 at 21:58

Girlfriend has a HP stream,with a 20gb EmmC storage..which is lame and cant' even upgrade to windows 10. I bought a SSD occidentally not realising it.

Is it possible buy them? I cant seem to find any for laptops, 50gb would be more than enough.
Any links appreciated thanks

Rroff · 8 Feb 2016 at 22:01

eMMC usually is soldered to the mainboard so unless there is an extra hdd slot or you feel like some serious DIY not many options.

RJC · 8 Feb 2016 at 22:06

Normally you can use a external USB drive whilst trying to upgrade, my laptop had the same issue.

lawrence281 · 8 Feb 2016 at 22:56

RJC said:
Normally you can use a external USB drive whilst trying to upgrade, my laptop had the same issue.

Its weird, the drive says it has 6gb left, i restart it and randomly now has 500mb left. and theres nothing that takes up that much space on it..this is weird

lawrence281 · 8 Feb 2016 at 22:59

Rroff said:
eMMC usually is soldered to the mainboard so unless there is an extra hdd slot or you feel like some serious DIY not many options.

The side has a SD slot, i only need 32gb, know any links for cheap as possible?

Rroff · 8 Feb 2016 at 23:06

SD Slot won't be a good option for booting an OS from though might be useful for temporary storage for getting Windows 10 installed.

Check stuff like swap file size, hibernation file, previous/update OS files in temporary storage (via disc clean up), etc. for freeing up space.

lawrence281 · 9 Feb 2016 at 16:47

Rroff said:
SD Slot won't be a good option for booting an OS from though might be useful for temporary storage for getting Windows 10 installed.

Check stuff like swap file size, hibernation file, previous/update OS files in temporary storage (via disc clean up), etc. for freeing up space.

SHe doesnt mind about windows 10, its just that, it only has windows 8 installed, and has no memory free, it had 6gb and just randomly took it all out of nowhere. Only want to install Office >.<