Insufficient space. while upgrading Ainol Mini PC II into Win 10

[Uriel]

Hello,

I'm trying to upgrade my Ainol Mini PC II into Win 10, but got a message that there is not enough space on my HDD. I have almost nothing installed on my Ainol (Beside Kodi and Chrome).

How can I increase my space?
Is that mean that I would need to delete the Android partition?
If so - how can I do this? There are dozens of partitions on my HDD (I could find all of those partitions using Macrium)

Regards,
Uriel

[trebor]

I recall you can use a TF/SD card and data gets moved/used there,
Had to do it a few months ago just can't remember exactly what I had to do but it worked on a intel box with limited space.
Cheers

[Uriel]

I inserted a TF memory stick card (2GB for illustration), but it does not extend my primary storage (as expected...), but this is an extended storage (for storage movies, pictures etc.). I don't think it can be operated as an OS.

Should I need to delete / merge my Disk 0 partitions? If so - which partitions should be deleted? I could find only 5 partitions between 1GB to 5GB, beside the OS partition (17GB)

[trebor]

From memory I just inserted when t asked for more space like your first Photo, and it found it and used there was no deleting of Partitions.
You will need 16 or 32 gb card and it may have to be formatted NTFS but can't recall. try both ways if it fails.
It does not add it just uses to create recovery and moves files around while the update is happening.
Cheers

[Uriel]

Hello,

Thank you for your help: I've just noticed that this is for recovery purposes. I connected an external HDD and everything is OK now: I succeeded upgrading into Win 10.

Thank you for your help.

Uriel

[bluesmanuk]

I came across this last year and using a USB stick with the appropriate space did not work but Microsoft did change something in subsequent 10 install releases that has supposedly enabled it to work, so make sure that you are using the latest upgrade tool.

As the one image suggests, run the disk cleanup tool and select all the options available, as well as clear out all system restore points (remember to select Clean up system files to make it complete)

Some installations of Windows also have many unneeded language packs, so, from an elevated command prompt, run the command Lpksetup /u and delete any that you don't need.
Delete the contents of C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download
Delete any Windows.old folder (if present)

Run an elevated commend prompt and run the command usoclient startscan

Disabling WiFi and Bluetooth before starting the installation have also know to allow the process to complete by not having to install updates at this point (they can be installed as part of Windows update later.

Needless to say that you should uninstall any apps that you don't use and temporarily move data to an external source to free up as much space as possible.

If you are running Kodi (especially if you have lots of addons etc) then you can also use a trick to allow Kodi to run with all data stored on an external source.

I was starting to run out of space and have a decent USB 3.0 flash drive permanently attached to the USB 3,0 port.

I then carried out the following to move the Kodi data to the flash drive and create a symbolic link such that when Kodi starts, it always looks for the data on the flash drive.

Create a folder on the destination drive/partition x:\Kodi
Rename the C:\Users\your_name\Appdata\Roaming\Kodi folder to Kodi.old
Open a command line as administrator and use the command:
mklink /D C:\Users\your_name\AppData\Roaming\Kodi x:\Kodi
Move the contents of Kodi.old folder to its new location (x:\Kodi)
Delete the Kodi.old folder
Run Kodi to check that all has worked

(Replace x:\ with your chosen assigned drive/partition letter)
(Replace your_name with your own user name)

See how much space is available after all of the above and then try the update again (I use a bootable flash drive myself rather than from within a running Windows system).