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Touchsmart 610 - installing windows 8 on a partition, error, not enough space on system partition? (636 Views)
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Touchsmart 610 - installing windows 8 on a partition, error, not enough space on system partition?

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‎08-16-2012 06:38 PM - edited ‎08-16-2012 08:25 PM

I created a 150 gb partition to install Windows 8 so I could dual boot Win 7 and Win 8.  When I try to install I get a message that there is not enough free space on my 'system' partition.  The only thing I can think of is that it is referring to the system (reserved) 100mb  partition.  It only has 10 mb of free space.  Obviously the partition I want to install on has plenty of space.  Has anyone had this problem and gotten around it? 

 

UPDATE:  Found the problem with my 100mb reserved partition.  I assigned a drive letter to it through disk management and saw a file 'test.vhd' of 55 mb.  I recognized this as a virtual drive I had created and deleted a few months ago!  Deleted this file and then removed the drive letter assignment, and Windows 8 installed on my partition in about 15 minutes.

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‎08-21-2012 10:42 AM

Hello meezer,


Glad you was able to get it installed. It always seems to be the little things that cause us the greatest problems.

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