Not enough disk space to even update Windows 10

[BerryG]

Please do not cry! Not even with happiness for the pleasure is shortlived at best and falls way short of complete satisfaction. Why are you happy anyway?

Look enough is enough. Pull yourself together and try UBUNTU. It's a free Op Sys called a Distro and comes with a FREE Office suite compatible with MS Word. Lovely people - very helpful. You can make a voluntary contribution if you must!

True I haven't quite got it running yet. Well it does run but there is no Wi-Fi access. Wants password all the time and refuses all offerings!  If I can get over that it's got to be a better way to go. UBUNTU V16.4 LTS - is maintained for years.

Please do look into it and give yourself & all of us the chance to escape from MS forever!

I used a boot memory stick (for my UB trial)  because I was scared to install over WINDOWS. However, now I learn that any old fool can downlaod the ISO image of the latest Windows and install it BECAUSE your Activation Key is within the BIOS. I got mine out with a dubious piece of free software BUT YOU DON'T need to know it apparently. MS can detect it before installing. 

HP  also had me do a BIOS upgrade. I whizzed through that in less than a week. Nothing to the WIN16 upgrade which has taken over 2 months of agony to achieve. Read my other posts if you must know every agonising detail - or just believe I have cried for us ALL! There is no need of more crying... look......... even as we speak ......... so to speak......... I am able to effectively write to you, and access the internet from my injured inadequate Stream 13. BTW it was a 14 but I washed it. Dry you eyes and get wise. Lobby with me for....... all we now..... need is:- 

The "Final Procedure"

1) How to download and make an ISO disk on a USB memory stick. (Same for either UBUNTU or WIN10 - just a different source site)

2) How to make it install in the Stream.  

Surely some wise person can do that? Why even I am close to being able but I am not yet wise.

Let us not preserve but rather persevere

Please HP do let me - don't be so severe

Reach out with your money, gained at my expense

Let me work once more - am I making any sense?

Best regds to you & all

BerryG

[BerryG]

Buy up and pay up you lovely silly people. Here's a free lunch!

[dkyaz]

Pardon my 'density', '1803', March 2018, '1709' Sep 2017. Gotta love ye old date codes...:smileywink: 

[ieee488]

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@BerryGwrote:

Buy up and pay up you lovely silly people. Here's a free lunch!

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My Lenovo 120S (32 GB eMMC hard drive was upgraded to Windows 10  revision 1709) and is running fine.

The "free" lunch to Ubuntu will have to wait until Windows 10 no longer works on this Winbook.

That could be as soon as April 2019.

I am doing a clean install of the next Windows 10 update.

The recovery partition is so out of date that it is pointless to keep it, and some hard drive space will be freed up.

Six months later October 2018 when the next Windows 10 update shows up, there should still be enough hard drive space to an in-place update.

Twelve months later in April 2019, I may or may not be able to do an in-place update.

[BerryG]

Me thinks you are right up there covering all the bases. Good luck with the future. Keep us posted how it goes.

BerryG

[BerryG]

I'm working on this posting. Old date codes / out of time / too dense or not quite dense enough /  Mmm!

Good luck with your product. I hope it proves to be amusing and completely satisfactory. Space or no space.

BerryG

[ieee488]

I like Linux.

I use Linux Mint 18 about 95% of the time.

I am taking a wait and see with the Lenovo.

[BerryG]

Thank you that is quite correct - I know that now. The Activation code however is in the BIOS and although you don't need to know it for the side load, it can be retrieved with some special software. I used some free software. 

I wanted to encourage the Forum to publish a complete procedure. So far I have this:-

Go to MS Download site and ID the correct package for your machine.  Download it if you have room. If not use another machine. Obtain Rufus and a USB mem-stick. Make a UEFI bootable memstick with the new  version of Windows on it. {ISO file}.

Go into the BIOS (press esc repeatably while booting up). Alter the sequence to place USB ahead of the intrnal disk. Choose UEFI if asked. 

Reboot with the new USB stick in place and follow the onscreen instructions.

That's about it - as far as I know. I invite any comments.

[BerryG]

Thank you that is quite correct - I know that now. The Activation code however is in the BIOS and although you don't need to know it for the side load, it can be retrieved with some special software. I used some free software. 

I wanted to encourage the Forum to publish a complete procedure. So far I have this:-

Go to MS Download site and ID the correct package for your machine.  Download it if you have room. If not use another machine. Obtain Rufus and a USB mem-stick. Make a UEFI bootable memstick with the new  version of Windows on it. {ISO file}.

Go into the BIOS (press esc repeatably while booting up). Alter the sequence to place USB ahead of the intrnal disk. Choose UEFI if asked. 

Reboot with the new USB stick in place and follow the onscreen instructions.

That's about it - as far as I know. I invite any comments.

[ieee488]

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@BerryGwrote:

Thank you that is quite correct - I know that now. The Activation code however is in the BIOS and although you don't need to know it for the side load, it can be retrieved with some special software. I used some free software. 

I wanted to encourage the Forum to publish a complete procedure. So far I have this:-

Go to MS Download site and ID the correct package for your machine.  Download it if you have room. If not use another machine. Obtain Rufus and a USB mem-stick. Make a UEFI bootable memstick with the new  version of Windows on it. {ISO file}.

Go into the BIOS (press esc repeatably while booting up). Alter the sequence to place USB ahead of the intrnal disk. Choose UEFI if asked. 

Reboot with the new USB stick in place and follow the onscreen instructions.

That's about it - as far as I know. I invite any comments.

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You don't have BIOS.

You have UEFI which replaced BIOS.