Upgrading Small Tablets to Windows 10

[k72]

I installed Win10 on my HP Stream 7 via Windows Update as an in-place upgrade this morning. Went fine -- actually, it went much faster than I expected. I wish MS gave some more tips on "tablet mode" vs "desktop mode" on tablets, though, as I couldn't find my way back into OneDrive settings after telling it not to sync anything at first while in tablet mode (no icons on taskbar in tablet mode).

When you say Windows update, is that where you use the command prompt to make it update or did it download regularly?

 

[mhc48]

Win 10 installed easily on my old Dell Venue 8 Pro (32) and it works fine. The only problem so far is that in Tablet mode Landscape, I only have one column of tiles as if it were running in Portrait. I've tried everything I can think of to change or add another column and am beginning to think it may be a limitation of the screen resolution and tablet size. If anyone has a fix Id be much obliged.

 

[mhc48]

When you say Windows update, is that where you use the command prompt to make it update or did it download regularly?

Mine downloaded regularly and showed up in Settings> Update but there said it had to be installed differently. From the Desktop I think it was. But still simple, I didn't use command prompt,just clicked the link and it took off merrily on its own. Easier than when I did the Preview builds and this time there were the voice prompts telling me to just let it run.

 

[k72]

Thanks. I checked again and it started right up. Much easier than trying the manual way, which failed over and over. So now my Stream 7 is charging so that I can attach a USB drive with enough storage (my SD card only has 8 GB). I hope the battery lasts long enough to install!

 

[zerospace-net]

In tablet mode, hold the finger on taskbar until menu pop-up then choose Show all notification icons.

Thanks. I just toggled to desktop mode to get the icons needed, but my complaint here is that there is NOTHING that tells you this on first boot with a tablet (so if you don't already know the differences between tablet mode and desktop mode, you're pretty much left to wander in the dark for awhile).

k72 -- my update downloaded regularly through Windows Update after I had reserved a copy using the "get windows 10" program on my Stream 7. Installation was completely normal & finished within an hour.

 

[scandiskwindows9x]

Ask by an USB flash but i don't know can have powered the tablet at same time that I use the flash USB, that makes me get concerned get no battery in the middle of the install, tried an powered USB hub but still not getting powered the tablet , why Microsoft let make tablets with 16gb if can't even be futureproof?

 

[k72]

Ask by an USB flash but i don't know can have powered the tablet at same time that I use the flash USB, that makes me get concerned get no battery in the middle of the install, tried an powered USB hub but still not getting powered the tablet , why Microsoft let make tablets with 16gb if can't even be futureproof?

I tried upgrading. For some reason it was super slow, way slower than the last time it began installation. After 2-3 hours it was only 20% done. Last time it didn't take so long before it reverted. Unfortunately the battery ran out partway through. I charged it enough to see what was going on (should've let it charge more) and it does again while trying to roll back to 8. It's charging now. I'll turn it on this evening and see what it does. I guess my tablet is meant for 8.

 

[k72]

So, my tablet won't do anything without the flash drive from earlier in it, but it comes on, shows the HP logo, then a window flashes, and it briefly shows that it's trying to recover the installation, then it says it's restoring the previous version of Windows, then it restarts and repeats. Each time takes just a couple minutes at most. It's been doing this for most of an hour. What should I do?

 

[stocktiki]

Hi. On your Dell Venue Pro 8 - did you do the inplace upgrade or a clean install. Does the huge recovery partition get deleted after the upgrade so you have some storage space left? Did you have enough space on the device to do the upgrade - or did you use a micro SD card or USB stick to serve as temporary space?

 

[webkrawler]

I have an Irulu 10.1" Windows 8.1 tablet with a 32GB SSD hard drive.

Before I decided to upgrade to Windows 10 I saw I only had about 4GB of free space. I did not think that would be enough to do the upgrade.

I uninstalled nearly all the software I had installed on it including Office 365 and I was left with 12GB of free space.

It was enough to do the upgrade. Everything works great except the auto-rotate on the screen does not work (though I can manually rotate the screen).

After the update I was left with about 6GB of free space with the Windows.old folder still on the hard drive.

 

[Rodrigo Mendes]

I Have a Winpad (Brazil only I think) and I will try next week. Hope that will be easy just like my PC (Windows 8.1 and I had use Media Creation Tool x64 to upgrade to Windows 10).

 

[mhc48]

Hi. On your Dell Venue Pro 8 - did you do the inplace upgrade or a clean install. Does the huge recovery partition get deleted after the upgrade so you have some storage space left? Did you have enough space on the device to do the upgrade - or did you use a micro SD card or USB stick to serve as temporary space?

I did the in place upgrade. There is and was enough storage space but I do have three recovery partitions now. Two small ones and on 4.59G. I'm away for the weekend so haven't had a chance to look into deleting it yet. Monday I plan to hit up a Microsoft store to see about deleting it and dealing with my annoying stylus runtime error mentioned in another post.

 

[Br1t]

I also have an extra partition on my Omni 10 now. I was thinking about deleting all volumes and doing a clean install since the license is fixed. But I do have an extra 6gb of space Vs 8.1 so I'm in no hurry.

 

[mhc48]

I just discovered thatt If you go to Settings System Storage, then this PC and System files, there is an option to remove the old Win 8 recovery files. Apparently it says they will be removed anyway one month after upgrading. By doing thar now I recovered 6.1 GB of space on my drive..

 

[stocktiki]

You did an inplace upgrade, right?

 

[mhc48]

Yup, in place

 

[stocktiki]

Great to know.... did the inplace upgrade also remove the hidden recovery partition after you removed the old recovery files as you described above? (Thanks for being my test pilot)

 

[mhc48]

Great to know.... did the inplace upgrade also remove the hidden recovery partition after you removed the old recovery files as you described above? (Thanks for being my test pilot)

Although I did recover a good amount of disk space, there is still about a 4.5G recovery drive (as well as two smaller recovery drives of around 450MB each). I spoke to a tech at the local Microsoft store today about deleting the larger one, but he advised me not to. He said Windows needs the Recovery Drive. I said that I thought the recovery drive was now empty and the message in Settings before I deleted the files said the files would be deleted anyway one month after upgrading, so why not?. He said that normally in a month the 8.1 recovery files in that 4.5G drive would be replaced with Win 10 recovery files which the system would need in case I ever needed to do a Win 10 recovery.

I don't know whether that makes any sense or if he's right, but for now I'm going to wait and leave the recovery drive..

 

[HTC_8X_User]

Windows 10 working great on my Nextbook Flexx 11.6.

 

[jorgejlt]

upgraded today hp stream 8 32 Gb working great. I love it. Not any problem during installation just time and full drivers from Hp as usual. Great job Microsoft an Hp