April 2018 Windows 10 Updates won't run

[cboshdave]

Windows 10 updates for April will not download and run because my ProBook 360 does not have enough hard drive space.  I have gone out to Microsoft's update site and downloaded them myself to the MicroSD card I added to my machine.  When I try to run them, they say they are not applicable to my machine.  I'm not I have spent hours digging around for solutions.  I'm not sure what else to try.  

I did check to make sure I downloaded the 64 bit option applicable to my machine.  

Oh, and my Probook is almost new.  I have not really put anything on the hard drive and I have cleaned up (deleted) everything I can find to delete.  

Suggestions would be appreciated.  The popup from windows every time I turn on my computer is getting annoying. 

Dave

[WAWood · Accepted solution]

@cboshdave

I am not sure what you mean by "April 2018 Updates" as what you should really be doing is the following:

1) Insert an 8GB USB stick into your PC

2) Run the MS Media Creation Tool and select the option to create install media using the USB stick

3) When done, do not BOOT from the USB stick, but instead, open the drive, select the "setup.exe" file and run it -- that will start the in-place Upgrade process.

This way, NONE of the April 2018 Update files are saved to your local drive, so they do not take up any space there until the Upgrade actually starts.

[cboshdave]

I have tried that too.  The option still says I need 8 gigs of free space on the c: drive.  No option to select another location.  

I am using MediaCreationTool1803.exe.  

[cboshdave]

WAWood had the right answer.  I finally found where some files had been inadventently copied to my small hard drive that should not have been.  I did a search in Winows Explorer for "Size: Large" and then Open file Location and I found the problem files.  Apparently, I need at least 8 gig on the local drive even to use the MS Download tool.  Thanks.