Win10 on 32Gig Vi10 and still keep Android?

[Jadrix]

Go in to the properties of your C disk and there run DISK CLEANUP in the new windows choose CLEAN UP SYSTEM FILES (CHECK EVERYTHING). Done. Upgrade windows without microSD inserted!

[me2]

Jadrix wrote:

Go in to the properties of your C disk and there run DISK CLEANUP in the new windows choose CLEAN UP SYSTEM FILES (CHECK EVERYTHING). Done. Upgrade windows without microSD inserted!

Jadrix, thanks but I had already done Disk Cleanup but I tried it again per your instructions and gain very little space.

I need around 6 Gig to upgrade to Win10

 

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[Jadrix]

hmmmm strange, I have android and windows 10 installed. In windows have 8.5gb free with Office 2007 installed!!!! You must check in file explorer the size of yours C:folders one by one. One of them must be bigger then normal. Also you can disable windows hibernate. The hibernate file is very big.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power]
“HibernateEnabled”=dword:00000000

[me2]

I have checked all folders and the largest folder is WinSxs.

I have also attached an image of my partitions. Disk1 is a 32Gig Micro SD card.

 

 

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[Jadrix]

WinSxs folder is OK…mine is 4.7Gb!!! I think we found the problem but I don’t know how to solve it. Take a look of my C: partition, is much bigger than yours. you have 15.4GB and I 19.20…mine is almost 4GB bigger! Did you make some changes to yours partitions?
PD: Now I see- compare both recovery partitions! Yours is enormous There is a lot of unnecessary space.

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[me2]

No, the partitions are the size that came with the tablet.

Does anyone know how to change the Recover partition size and merge it with  C: partition so that I have space to update to Win10?

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[ImADev]

me2 wrote:

Does anyone know how to change the Recover partition size and merge it with C: partition so that I have space to update to Win10?

You can’t due to the way Windows 8.1 and 10 work.

You’re doing the upgrade from a USB or SD card, correct? Having the Windows installation on the drive itself would be taking up way too much room. Also your pagefile, you should temporarily disable it to gain 1GB+ back.

Personally I’d reset Windows 8.1 and have it delete all of the files and applications. You can also try this if you haven’t already.

[me2]

ImADev wrote:

me2 wrote:

Does anyone know how to change the Recover partition size and merge it with C: partition so that I have space to update to Win10?

You can’t due to the way Windows 8.1 and 10 work. You’re doing the upgrade from a USB or SD card, correct? Having the Windows installation on the drive itself would be taking up way too much room. Also your pagefile, you should temporarily disable it to gain 1GB+ back. Personally I’d reset Windows 8.1 and have it delete all of the files and applications. You can also try this if you haven’t already.

Upgrading from USB,  I disabled the pagefile as you suggested and gained 3.57 GB ….thanks

Now if someone that has changed the recover partition size and merge it with C: partition would post how to, I should have enough space to update to Win10…….since I just gained 3.57 GB!

 

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[ImADev]

Like I said, that can’t be done due to how Windows 8 and up use the partition. It’s like deleting system32 if you delete or tamper with that partition.

Windows 8.x: http://www.howtogeek.com/196416/wimboot-explained-how-windows-can-now-fit-on-a-tiny-16-gb-drive/
Windows 10: http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2015/07/faster-booting-smaller-footprint-make-windows-10-an-easy-upgrade-for-old-pcs/

[me2]

Well, I finally was able to upgrade to win10 and keep android with all working!

I will post steps used to upgrade so that it may help others.

 

 

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