Sorry Tom, I guess we're just screwed totally.The colors produced by the Stream 11's display aren't particularly accurate, but they are on a par with those of other laptops in its price range. and don't even try calling any help line, you'll be sent directly to a group of morons in India who don't know a **bleep** thing, but at the least they"ll "be happy to help you with that problem" while they keep you on the phone for over a half hour or more and do absolutely NOTHING for you! Great, Merry Christmas to me. So yeah, great HP, thanks for making a cheap laptop that we can afford yet Windows 10 forces upgrades that this HD will not allow due to space issues.got me by the short hairs, what fun! Screw HP, they've been nothing but useless to me. So, I guess I'm basically totally screwed with this laptop.can't put a larger HD in here, can't go back to windows8.1 unless I buy it (not an option for me due to super low income -SSID), and WIN 10 will not allow me to backup or assign updates to a SD card OR a USB Drive, and I cannot afford to buy an external HD (not positive that Windows 10 would even allow that. Gee thanks with the alleged wisdom of those statements, guys! I am currently waiting for it to arrive in the mail. Of course, I didn't know that would happen, so that's just a bad "gift" from windows 10 So, I guess I've ordered a 32GB SD card now for nothing. I have had to do the restore's on this laptop and because of that, have lost the ability to go back to 8.1 completely. Hi Tom, sounds like we both have the same problem here. I just have gotten into the habit of doing without anything personalized for me on this laptop, due to these restrictions. I already have assigned all downloads, pics, music, etc.to go to my 32gb thumb drive. I've got just under 3 gb's left free on here now. Now, it's apparently completed it's mandatory updates, but is now harrassing me daily with pop ups stating I need to clean up the HD to have more room. I did a complete restore on the hd because it kept saying I didn't have enough room on the HD for the major November update. I just wonder what in the world else I can do with this little laptop, otherwise? Sure, I can get an external drive, I already have a 32gb thumb drive (usb 2.0) and an 8gb thumb drive (also 2.0 usb), and yes, I guess I could invest in a SD card to slap in here too, however, I HAVE nothing on here except for the original win10 stuff that came with the update from 8.1. With windows 10 forcing you to your updates and upgrades, there is little else I can do. With the fact that everything is soldered to t he MB thus not allowing upgrades to anything, I will quickly be forced to wipe t he entire drive and go back to using 8.1 windows instead. Thanks for the info, however, will win10 allow me to use that when my hard drive is filled to capacity (20gb) with their updates and upgrades and nothing else? This is the problem I have here. So wouldn't hooking up an external HD via usb be the same, thus causing the same messages? I'd love to know this before I go and buy an external HD as I'm on a limited budget now and must pinch every single penny. So, if upgrading to a larger onboard HD isn't an option, would it allow me to use an external HD via USB? I have tried to use a 32GB "thumb drive" formatted in NTSB, the OS will not allow me to do backups or anything else that I need to do regarding the updates on a "removable drive". Main problem: it now says I don't have enough room left on the HD to allow this update.īeen quite a few years (about 20 to be exact) since I've built a pc, and have only tried to mess around inside a laptop once and realized I NO likey to deal with such confined tiny spaces. Ok, so I set about doing all the updates including the big huge one that is demanded just a couple days ago.
I have done disk clean up and also cleaned up the system files as well.
12 GBs and that's w ith taking off everything I don't absolutely need to have on there. Ok, but when I completely restored to win10 (home), it shows that it takes up approx. Whatever, but it had windows 8.1 and I upgraded to Win10 when it was available and have since had to go back and do a complete system restore, which has wiped out any chance of going back to 8.1. So, then here's MY dilema.I bought this stream 360 with an alleged 32 GB HD, although it is listed on the info in the laptop as holding 20GB's. Ok, I get the message, we cannot upgrade the HD.