Storage issues

[cassie]

My younger brother gave me his windows 'hp stream' laptop. I wanted to reset the whole computer but it told me I needed 3 gb of storage. So I went and started uninstalling the things he had downloaded and the storage never went down. I even deleted EVERYTHING I could plus emptied the recycling bin and nothing change. After I managed to restore it back to the last update I looked at the storage to see whats taking up so much space and it seems to be all system related. I couldn't delete it if I wanted to... what do I do?

 

[Clintlgm]

You seem to be maxed out my windows folder is 31 GB, I just looked up your notebook and sure enough, it comes with 32 Gb of storage. I can't help you my notebook has 32 GB of RAM, I have no Idea how your suppose to do anything at all with that notebook? I guess someone with tablet experience will have some ideas for you I hope.

 

[Wolfie]

Hi cassie,

take a look here if you want to keep the data (Reset) on the drive:

https://www.windows10forums.com/threads/re-install-w10-and-keep-your-files-app-data-intact.15825/

IF you don't want the data, select "Custom" and remove the partitions BUT MAKE SURE YOU DON'T ERASE ANY RECOVERY PARTITION YOU MIGHT HAVE AS IT MAY RENDER YOUR COMPUTER USELESS!!!.

 

[cassie]

Hi cassie,

take a look here if you want to keep the data (Reset) on the drive:

https://www.windows10forums.com/threads/re-install-w10-and-keep-your-files-app-data-intact.15825/

IF you don't want the data, select "Custom" and remove the partitions BUT MAKE SURE YOU DON'T ERASE ANY RECOVERY PARTITION YOU MIGHT HAVE AS IT MAY RENDER YOUR COMPUTER USELESS!!!.

I have tried that and it tells me I need 3 GB of storage in order to do it. There is nothing to delete in order to make room?

 

[Clintlgm]

I have tried that and it tells me I need 3 GB of storage in order to do it. There is nothing to delete in order to make room?

Then your left with performing a clean install that will format your storage device and hopefully install a minimum windows 10 install my guess would be to run it in tablet mode you can download and create an Install USB media from Microsoft using MCT A great tutorial is you need it. Any other users of these very small storage devices please chime in I have no idea what to with that little storage.

 

[Norton]

I just performed a clean install and the last cumulative update to bring my PC up to 1709.16299.371. If I remember correctly it required 21GB of HD storage. You mentioned your HD is 29GB, not much wiggle room there for anything else.

 

[Clintlgm]

This may be useful to people with real small storage

 

[Wolfie]

Hi Cassie,

you should also remove any unwanted apps that MS install without asking people like nearly 1GB in games alone, check your apps list and remove what you don't want/need: