Creator's Update on limited-space netbook
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I'm trying to apply the Windows 10 CU to a 32GB netbook. The only thing installed on it is Windows 10 and Notepad++, and I've run the Admin Disk Cleanup, so there is nothing left to come off the drive, and there is just over 9GB free. If I run the CU updater, it says that the CPU, RAM and free space pass the tests, and starts the download. It all downloads and then starts the verification. During the verification process, it slowly fills up the disk completely and falls over. Looking online, if you have attached storage, the upgrade is supposed to offer to use it for temporary files, but I don't get that option regardless of what I plug in. I'd be grateful for any suggestions!
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I'm trying to apply the Windows 10 CU to a 32GB netbook. The only thing installed on it is Windows 10 and Notepad++, and I've run the Admin Disk Cleanup, so there is nothing left to come off the drive, and there is just over 9GB free. If I run the CU updater, it says that the CPU, RAM and free space pass the tests, and starts the download. It all downloads and then starts the verification. During the verification process, it slowly fills up the disk completely and falls over. Looking online, if you have attached storage, the upgrade is supposed to offer to use it for temporary files, but I don't get that option regardless of what I plug in. I'd be grateful for any suggestions!
First question: Why doing all of this on a machine with 32 GB of HDD? I have a laptop, which contains 32GB of SSD and I have an external storage of 500GB HDD. I do all sort of unnecessary stuff on the HDD, and keep the OS files only on the SSD, but still it is not at all helpful. Of course, whenever I plug out the HDD a lot of things go out of order, multimedia, some software etc. Plus I also had to manage a lot of stuff in the Registry to get things done properly in order to always look for executables in external storage. What I do, for installation (if you want to install it), download the media from somewhere else. Create a bootable media (I used, copy + paste to a USB — it works, please let's not talk about formatting etc or bootables!), then start the setup from beginning and perform a clean install. I don't think there are any other ways likely. Because, at the end, no matter how much painfully you get to download the Windows 10 CU in the machine, you are going to use a USB stick to install it, so why not get it beforehand? Trust me, 32GB of C: drive is painful and a torture which you have brung unto yourself. :laugh:
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I'm trying to apply the Windows 10 CU to a 32GB netbook. The only thing installed on it is Windows 10 and Notepad++, and I've run the Admin Disk Cleanup, so there is nothing left to come off the drive, and there is just over 9GB free. If I run the CU updater, it says that the CPU, RAM and free space pass the tests, and starts the download. It all downloads and then starts the verification. During the verification process, it slowly fills up the disk completely and falls over. Looking online, if you have attached storage, the upgrade is supposed to offer to use it for temporary files, but I don't get that option regardless of what I plug in. I'd be grateful for any suggestions!
hairy_hats wrote:
the upgrade is supposed to offer to use it for temporary files, but I don't get that option regardless of what I plug in
Basically a guess but as I read that... The installer doesn't offer that. What you need to do is 1. Plug in the external driver 2. Alter the OS to use the external drive for temporary storage. There might actually be several such configurations (or just one.) 3. Do the install 4. Undo step 2 5. Undo step 1