EON1488993291 Posted July 13, 2016 Share Posted July 13, 2016 Hello! I have a Surface RT (32 GB) and it only has 1.69 GB of space left on the HD. The thing is that I have almost nothing on it (just a few apps that I check and do NOT take a lot of space, and small files), so I don't know what is taking so much space. Does anyone knows where is all that memory going? I have not being able to find it (I have checked the size of the apps, delete the trash can, delete the internet history/cookies)... Also, I want to upgrade to Windows 8.1. These are the two ways that I have think of doing it, but I will like your opinion on which option is better (or if there is a better way): Plan 1: take the tablet to its original status (in PC settings > General > Remove everything and reinstall Windows), move the recovery files to a thumb drive (http://www.surfacegeeks.net/forums/index.php?/topic/192-surface-rt-how-to-free-up-4-gigabytes-of-storage-space-on-your-rt/), and do all updates to take it to Windows 8.1 Plan 2: free some space by moving the recovery files to a thumb drive, make the upgrade to Windows 8.1, run a cleanup disk and defragment the drive Making a backup of the files in the tablet is easy b/c there is not much in it, but my main concerns for the process are: I am going to loose microsoft office? is it going to ask me for any key/license number (if I ever had one, I don't know where it is)? anything else that I am missing? Thanks! EON Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
callihan44 Posted July 14, 2016 Share Posted July 14, 2016 I would be very careful moving recovery files to a different drive, in the past some people have had a nightmarish experience trying to recover their tablet after a disaster this may help some https://www.microsoft.com/surface/en-us/support/getting-started/windows-8-preview-on-surface?os=windows-8.1-rt-update-3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WolfJT Posted July 17, 2016 Share Posted July 17, 2016 Also, try compressing the hard drive, that may help as well Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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