Windows 11 Upgrade - Insufficient Space

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Have a Huawei Laptop running Windows 10 and I'd like to upgrade it to Windows 11. However there isn't sufficient space on the C Drive to enable Windows update to do it.

The laptop has a 1TB drive, which came configured with a C partition (119GB) of which there's only 5.68GB free space and a Data (D) drive of 814GB, which has 767GB free.

Is there a way for me to download the Win 11 upgrade onto a USB and have it carry out the upgrade?
 
Why not backup all your media files and then just delete the partitions during the install and let Windows 11 create a new 1TB partition?

That’s what I would do unless you want to keep the recovery partition that Huawei have on there.

Edit: oh you are attempting an upgrade. Might need to use a partition manager then to sort the D partition as that is eating up all the space.

Strange that your C partition is only configured with 119GB of space.
 
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Extend C Drive via Disk Management. This may work but unmovable files may cause a problem.You can use dedicated partition software which will work.
 
EaseUS partition master (free) should do the job. Backup all your media but before playing around with partitions!
 
As the above poster - use Disk Cleanup and remember to click 'Clean up system files' which will give you the option to clean up Windows Updates, etc.


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