Win10 October 2018 Update – Dump Files to Avoid Crashes

Windows 10 October 2018 Update: Dump Files to Avoid Crash, Microsoft Warns

As is well known, Microsoft is focusing on its next big update of Windows operating system – Windows 10 October 2018 Update (V1809). Recently, this company has given a warning to users that they should make sure there is enough storage space for the big update ahead of the next month’s release of Windows 10 1809. Otherwise, there may be some troubles.

This warning is aimed at all users of the system with limited storage space. If no sufficient disk space exists, users may fail to initialize after running Windows Update. As a result, a Windows update failure occurs, which may cause the PC to be unbootable. This is a quite annoying thing.

Microsoft picks out “thin clients” and “embedded systems”. But for owners who have bought Windows laptops with 32GB flash storage to skimped on PC costs, this could be taken as a general warning since Windows 10 requires about 10GB of storage space to install.

According to some forums, many of these users have ever experienced a warning “Windows needs more space” while they are performing an update in the past. As a matter of fact, this issue is quite common, and MiniTool has written an article – 6 Helpful Ways to Fix Not Enough Space for Windows 10 Update which can help users to learn more information.

To put it simply, the cause of this issue is something that users might think Microsoft had eliminated up to now, for instance, raise minimum storage requirements for hardware makers that are respectively 16GB and 20GB for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows 10 desktops.

Whereas the explanation for this specific failure from Microsoft is different, and it says “Windows Update does not check systems for adequate space requirements before it initializes.”

Some Suggestions on Windows 10 October 2018 Update

According to Microsoft, a regular regimen of system maintenance is necessary, which means manually getting rid of some unnecessary & temporary files, and maintaining awareness of available and used storage space.

In order to make way for Microsoft’s operating system, users should delete temporary files & downloads, empty Windows Recycle Bin and uninstall some apps that haven’t ever been used.

Besides, moving photos and other data to a USB thumb drive or another storage device should be taken into consideration by users. What’s more, users can save fewer OneDrive files locally on their PCs.

As to doing each of these tasks, Microsoft has offered a step-by-step guide.

And Microsoft plans to partially automate these tasks by improving its Storage Sense utility. However, that is coming with the next big update Windows 10 V1809; thus, this feature won’t be much helpful until the new version of Windows 10 is installed.

Prior to that, the Disk Cleanup tool will be helpful. But the users that have 32GB storage device will most likely have to make way for the next version of Windows 10 by following Microsoft’s manual instructions.

Actually, in addition, there are some excellent ways to help users to successfully finish the Windows 10 update without Windows needs more space warning. And they are extending system partition with MiniTool Partition Wizard, upgrading disk to a larger one, etc.

Final Words

Want to upgrade to the latest version of Windows 10? Remember to dump files to ensure there is sufficient disk space for the update by following the above suggestions. Above all, here is another thing you should do and that is to create a backup of the PC with MiniTool ShadowMaker, free backup software, to avoid system accident before an update.