Win 10 upgrade

MoridinUK · 2 Jun 2016 at 18:44

Ok so I accidentally let my main pc upgrade to win10 and well everything is fine.

However, my old install had bloated and my c drive a 120 gb ssd was about 90-100 gb full and still is.

I already had my libraries on another drive (WD black).

Should I do another clean win 10 install or carry on, I don't see any issues right now, but I do fear there could be some later?

I know this means reinstalling all my files and drivers but maybe it would be worthwhile doing this now rather than later? Though I do like all my passwords etc not being forgotten!

IT Troll · 3 Jun 2016 at 06:39

You could use SpaceSniffer to identify any disk hogs. Also the built-in Disk Cleanup tool is great for safely clearing out old updates, installations and temp files.

MoridinUK · 3 Jun 2016 at 11:35

Yeah the disk clean up reduced the footprint on the ssd from about 60gb to 40! (I deleted the previous version of windows!)

MoridinUK · 4 Jun 2016 at 13:05

I have one last question, one mroe pc to upgrade to win10.

It is currently win7 on a 64 gb ssd, it is too crampt and SpaceSniffer says there is almost 30 gb in winsxs. But I can't clean any of that it seems. There isn't enough space to do a win10 upgrade, but I have bought a new 120 gb ssd to replace the small one, so what to do? REplace the drive do a win7 install and then the win 10 upgrade or a straight win 10 install. The win 7 key is supposed to work, but my win 7 wasn't a retail version but an upgrade version! Any ideas? Also the board is an old gigabyte e45-udp r1.0 and there are no win 8 or win 10 drivers for it on the gigabyte site. Any advice on how to find the drivers for it? I'd rather download them a head of installing the OS and install them straight after...

maklabouhlel · 4 Jun 2016 at 14:28

MoridinUK said:
I have one last question, one mroe pc to upgrade to win10.

It is currently win7 on a 64 gb ssd, it is too crampt and SpaceSniffer says there is almost 30 gb in winsxs. But I can't clean any of that it seems. There isn't enough space to do a win10 upgrade, but I have bought a new 120 gb ssd to replace the small one, so what to do? REplace the drive do a win7 install and then the win 10 upgrade or a straight win 10 install. The win 7 key is supposed to work, but my win 7 wasn't a retail version but an upgrade version! Any ideas? Also the board is an old gigabyte e45-udp r1.0 and there are no win 8 or win 10 drivers for it on the gigabyte site. Any advice on how to find the drivers for it? I'd rather download them a head of installing the OS and install them straight after...

I think you have to do the upgrade first time round to get the pc registered with Microsoft. Any subsequent installations can be done cleanly. I just upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 7 on a 60GB SSD. It said there is insufficient space but it gave the option to use a usb drive to compensate.

Just clone your 64GB ssd to the new one then do the upgrade.

MoridinUK · 4 Jun 2016 at 17:51

I've always had this problem if I clone it, wont it clone the partition and so be too small anyway? At least this is what I found with VMware a few years ago?

Which cloning software do you suggest??

Thanks for the advice, though I'm still a bit scared of this. I have found articles that say you don't need to do the upgrade first anymore but I'd not like to find out the hard way!

maklabouhlel · 4 Jun 2016 at 18:13

MoridinUK said:
I've always had this problem if I clone it, wont it clone the partition and so be too small anyway? At least this is what I found with VMware a few years ago?

Which cloning software do you suggest??

Thanks for the advice, though I'm still a bit scared of this. I have found articles that say you don't need to do the upgrade first anymore but I'd not like to find out the hard way!

I've read that too. A lot of people here use Macrium Reflect. It's free and easy to use. Then you can use disk management to extend the volume to 120GB

MoridinUK · 11 Jun 2016 at 16:56

Ok, so I'm falling in love with Macrium but have hit a problem. I'm imaging the os partition from a laptop it is 200GB, I'm putting it on a 240 gb ssd. The original he'd had a 25 gb recovery part the 200 gb os part and a 250gb data part. When I put the os part on the new disk if I leave an empty 25 gb it works but if I put the Os at the front of the disk so I can extend the part to the full 240gb it won't boot, says a device is missing. Any advice?