So I decided to upgrade my desktop to Windows 10 from 7 whilst it's free. Before the upgrade it had a dual boot with Linux Mint 17, which I had set up with the following partitions: 8Gb swap, 60Gb Linux, 60Gb Linux /home, 50Gb Windows, 322Gb shared partition. I downloaded the Windows 10 installer and started the update. The download is about 3Gb which was fine, but the first problem hit just after. The installer got stuck on "checking for updates", which after googling seems like a common problem. To fix it you have to restart windows update service by opening cmd in admin mode typing net stop wuauserv net start wuauserv I had to repeat this a few times before it finished. The next problem was that the partition didn't have enough free space, which was a surprise as I only use Windows for games and those are on the shared partition. It turns out that although Windows 7 requires 20Gb to install, a normal install uses ~45Gb after all the updates. A...
Interesting and useful things that I have found out and want to share.