Win10 Update blaming the hardware for lack of space?

Use disk clean-up utility. Windows makes a backup file when it does updatess and those use up loads of space. Its usually safe to delete them. I would do a search for large files larger than 50MB (for example) and maybe chuck them on a DVD.

There is no upgrade to a larger disk available. The computer was working, and an oversize update was previously installed, but the latest update does not ask to use the extra space on a card or USB drive.

It is obvious that the fault lies between a sloppy Win10 install program and the Win10 memory manager using the disk space. It is also obvious that there are no WIn10 experts on Y! answers willing to answer this, so I'll try elsewhere.

One user proposed a possible solution, then it was deleted. It wasn't very good, but it was the best answer.

Acer support said

"You will need to get a 32GB SD card and insert it into the laptop, then if you right click on the SD card in your File Explorer, select format, then select NTFS.

Then press the Windows Key and I. Go to system, click on Storage in the left hand list.

Click on "Change where new content is saved" and set all of the options except maps to save to SD card instead of your computer.

Then restart the system and it should start updating."

I used a 16Gb SD card, because that was what I had - it did the job. After I did the restart I had to initiate the update from the Win10 system. Now I have to undo all those settings, but I am up and running.

What is the part of "not enough space" that you are unable to grasp?

If you know the answer is not getting a bigger hard drive (it is that btw) then what is the answer?

You seem to know enough about computers to know that increasing your storage won’t solve the problem (it will solve it) so surely you know how to solve it right?

Here’s the thing with software updates, they will keep taking up more space. You either disable updates and leave yourself vulnerable to attacks, go live in the past and downgrade to another and smaller version of Windows or get a better hard drive.

Or you could argue on the internet about how you know what is best and continue to have a slow barely working computer.

Simple, get a big hard drive. If a container I have is too small, I got a buy a bigger one. There isn’t a magic out there to make it bigger

Edit: What are you talking about? There’s already a hard dive in it, you need to SWAP it with a bigger one (not literally bigger is size but bigger in storage)

What you’re experiencing is something you cannot avoid. Windows needs to be updated and updates take up space. You’ve even said it yourself that you constantly get pop ups about the storage getting full.

Being willfully ignorant isn’t going to get you anywhere. If you want this to work out then listen to the people trying to help you rather than thinking you know best as clearly you don’t.

You need a bigger hard drive! If there's not enough space to expand the compacted updates then there is not enough space.