Have over 100 gigs of HD space free and Win 7 says it can't upgrade ?!

velvta · Post by **velvta** » Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:02 pm

Telling me there's not enough space on the drive to do an upgrade. WTF?

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Wed Nov 24, 2010 6:35 pm

This free space on the same partition as current operating system. Anyway...NEVER do an upgrade, always do a clean install.

velvta · Post by **velvta** » Thu Nov 25, 2010 6:50 am

TonyT wrote:This free space on the same partition as current operating system. Anyway...NEVER do an upgrade, always do a clean install.

Hey Tony, want to clarify what i'm doing this for. i'm basically looking to just do a windows reinstall. It seems with win 7 and correct me if I'm wrong, but "upgrading" to the same OS is basically a reinstall? It gives me two options, one is a complete wipe where nothing is kept and the other is where everything is kept. The reason I'm doing this is because my aunt's laptop apparently got hit with a virus and can't get online. It's connected to my router but no internet...Ive uninstalled and reinstalled the network adapters and got new drivers that put on there via a flash drive and nothing's working.

TonyT · Post by **TonyT** » Thu Nov 25, 2010 10:29 am

Vefor you reunstall, check the Internet Options > Connections. Some viruses change it to use a Proxy which does not exists, thus no Internet access.