WINDOWS 10 Installation to SSD
“Setup was unable to use the existing partition because the system volume does not contain the required free space” (SOLVED)
A simple solution you may want to try.
Clearly going into ‘DISK MANAGEMENT’ and making sure your partition is over 30 GB is a good start. But you have probably tried that and why you are here.
This is an interesting one and there is a simple answer to the vast majority of situations where you attempt to install Windows and have plenty of space on your hard drive partition yet it gives the message, ‘you do not have enough disk space‘.
How can that be? You may have 100 GB!!!
What has probably happened is the following:
- You may have an SSD (Solid State Drive).
- You have partitioned this SSD – to run two operating systems.
- You have a second storage drive in your PC.
Solution:
- Turn off your PC at the mains. Open up your PC
- Unplug the data cable from your storage drive. (A storage drive is a second Drive usually a spinning 1 or 2 TB drive that you have stored data on like Videos etc but NOT the operating system).
- Reboot your PC and try again.
- If it installs wait until everything is up and running and then switch off and re attach the storage drive.
This has happened to me a number of times and what usually happens is the software is trying to write to a full storage drive that does not have enough disk space. Some SSDs write information to another drive if available so they can function (it is never a good idea to install an SSD with other drives, I recommend always installing it alone and adding the other drives to the board later – once it is up and running. If that storage drive is unavailable it is forced to write to itself.
It is also important to do this because is a storage drive is linked to the SSD the PC might crash or be unable to reboot if removed.
Try it
Hope this helps 🙂