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Running v4.4.1 farkles Windows Update on Win10 w/ 0x80070643 error
Boggin:
I came across a few on another forum which is closed now who had bought new Win 10 laptops with just those 32GB HDDs and found they were getting an error of insufficient space when it came to updates.
I advised them to take them back as not being fit for purpose.
An alternative would be to buy a larger drive.
My Toshiba laptops date back to 2010 and 2011 with each having a 64GB HDD.
Last year I had to replace the HDD on one and I bought a 1TB one but when I loaded the HDD with the system image I ended up with 350GB of unallocated space, but because they had been upgraded to Win 10, the Win 10's 480MB recovery partition was immediately to the right of C: so I had to factory reset back to Win 7 to extend that to C: and then reinstall Win 10 and every thing that entailed.
Prior to upgrading to Win 10 I had created Toshiba Win 7 recovery disks and removed the recovery partition and created a system image, so I didn't have to remove all of the bloat, but quite a few programs needed updating.
jhvance:
There is simply no way to expand the internal SSD or RAM on this particular model; at this point Office Depot wouldn't take it back, and Toshiba's US operation has been so decimated it's doubtful there is much opportunity for relief from that perspective. The upgrade process insists it must have 8 Gb on the drive, and won't even offer the option to utilize additional memory on an attached (and recognized in Explorer) 64 Gb USB drive which has been formatted to NTFS. The OS itself takes up almost 25 Gb, so there is simply no way to continue with that process -- it won't get beyond that 8 Gb-reduction demand when I run the MS 1809 Media Creation Tool, and so I seem to be in a "Catch-22" situation of the worst sort.
I really appreciate all your efforts but it seems I'm just SOL and am going to reinstall Panda Dome (so I have some sort of functional AV), then ignore the Defender updates until I can figure out how to prevent the OS from even checking for those and preclude it from failing to process other, legitimate updates its capable of handling within the limited memory. I'll be making some acerbic comments about this situation on any MS-related forums, to be sure.
Boggin:
Yes, I forgot that on those 32GB drive machines, the drive is built into the motherboard.
How long have you had the machine ?
You can free up some space by turning off Hibernate with the cmd powercfg -h off and turn it back on by changing off to on in that cmd.
Checking the free space on the drive before running the cmd and then after will tell you how much you have freed up.
jhvance:
Well, this issue is now resolved so the thread can be closed.
No matter how I approached the repair or upgrade process, none of the usual avenues would allow the 1809 upgrade installation to proceed because of storage space limitations it perceived even if I was doing it from a USB and launched the 1809 setup.exe directly under an administrator account. So, having a USB drive of the original out-of-box image and learning that the 1809 upgrade would apply to all previous versions of Windows 10, I simply nuked the laptop with the original image -- after it rebooted and walked me through the initial setup of user accounts, I proceeded to immediately rebuild its fresh OS with application of the 1809 upgrade. That has proven successful, and I've since run the built-in cleaners to remove unneeded storage, and jettisoned the old Windows to gain a lot more free space than I ever had previously. It might not be the normal routine I'll follow, but perhaps when farkling reaches such a terminal-effort level of the OS it's more time-consuming but a lot less frustrating in the end.
Boggin:
You may face a similar problem with other updates, but at least you now have the latest version.
Did you also turn off Hibernation as I'd suggested which will save a few more GBs ?
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