• Is 46 GB not enough free space to install Windows 10?

    Posted on March 15, 2016 at 10:42 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Interesting question from reader A:

    It is not my intention to give you more work than you already have, but perhaps, you’d like to know this.
     
    A friend of mine has Win7 on his desktop.
    Used space: 53.9
    Freed space: 46.0
     
    He wanted to install Windows 10.
     
    But he was unable to. According to Microsoft logic there was not enough free space.

    I wrote back to A, asking for more details, but there’s obviously something wrong. Have any of you hit the problem? And solved it?

    Best guess I have at the moment is to stick a blank USB drive in the computer and try again. The Win10 installer may use free USB space for the installation.

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