[SOLVED] We cant tell if your PC has enough space to continue installing win10

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HirschHouse

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Resize Win7 Pro Disk (Upgrade to Win10)
Good day folks. I am new to the forum, I am sure this question had been asked but I have not found an answer yet.
I am upgrading my Win7Pro to Win10Home. I cant do a clean install due to apps. I am getting an error during the install "We cant tell if your PC has enough space to continue installing win10 ". MS Support says I have to do a clean install. Is it possible to resize the HDD to make the System Reserve Partiion larger?
My Disk 0
System Reserve Partition 1.6 MB of 31MB (System, Primary)
C: 66GB of 224GB (Boot, Pagefile, Active, crashdump, Primary Partition)
and 8.6 of Healthy (recovery Partition)

Thank you for any help you can give!
 
Hi Welcome to Sysnative,

May I ask why do you want to upgrade from Windows 7 Pro to Windows 10 Home?? the free upgrade option will give you Windows 10 Pro not Home.

Can you post a Screenshot of the Diskmanager Window expanded so we can see all the partitions of the drive containing Windows 7?
 
Hi,

If you install Windows 10 Home it will not activate! If you use do the upgrade using the Windows Media Creation tool or the ISO file provided by Microsoft it includes the Home and Pro edition and will automatically install the Pro edition based on the edition of Windows 7 you have now.

You need to adjust the partitions using a tool like AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Edition (Free for Personal use)
Free Partition Manager Software for Windows - AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard

This type of tools are safe but things can go wrong when playing with partitions so its recommended to have backups of your data!

The tasks you need to do with the tool:
- reduce the size of the C: partition around 40MB
- move the C: partition to the right so that the Unallocated space is "moved" to the left. between the System Reserved partition and the C: partition
- adjust the size of the System Reserved partition to extend the right boundary to use all the Unallocated space

If you right click on the partitions the software will show options to Resize Partition and Move Partition.

By the way I suspect that your C: drive doesn't have enough free space to do the upgrade, see if you can free some space there.
 
I initiated the install from MediaCreationTool1909.exe... Is there a different exe? I will try the AOMEI tool and get back to you in a few days.
 
Hi,

Why do you need a different tool?

Ok let me know how it worked.
 
Update. I used AOMEI to increase the size of the System Reserve Partition. I created more free space on me C: drive. When I run the MediaCreation Tool for Win10 I still get the Error "We cant tell if your PC has enough space to continue installing Windows 10. Try restarting Setup."

Any ideas how to move forward? Please see attached Disk Manager screen shot.
 

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You didn't follow my instructions correctly!

Why the System Reserved Partition is now 1.32GB!!! the size is normally between 100-500MB max

Put the extra free space on the C: drive, it have around 173GB used and during the upgrade the installer will backup the old installation it needs allot of space if the OS is using all that space and not your files...
 
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I see. I set the System Reserve to under 500MB. Question, I use Dropbox and I set many of my folders to the "Online Only" preference. Could that be causing me this grief?
 
HirschHouse said:
I see. I set the System Reserve to under 500MB. Question, I use Dropbox and I set many of my folders to the "Online Only" preference. Could that be causing me this grief?
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Ok, can you post a new screenshot showing the partitions, attach only the image not the PDF please. No I don't see any problem with that.
 
Ok.

If you have any 3rd party Antivirus or Microsoft Security Essentials remove them and try to upgrade by running the Windows 10 setup from the flash drive.

If it fails download and run SetupDiag SetupDiag - Windows Deployment provide the log generated by the tool.
 
HirschHouse said:
Do you need the .zip files too?
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I also look for the files Setupact.log and setuperr.log, depending on the installation stage they are created on different folders...

Yes. Did you uninstall Norton Security?
 
HirschHouse said:
There are 2 Uninstall options 1."Keep settings" and 2."remove all user data"
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On Norton? select keep settings.

When Windows 10 is installed you need to make sure that you have the latest Norton version that is compatible with the last edition of Windows 10 or it may not work properly!
 
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