Not enough space on system partition?

[AFort]

I have Windows 7 installed on a 240 GB SSD and want to upgrade to Windows 8 (and then 8.1...don't want to reinstall all my software if I can help it). When I run the Windows 8 setup, it says there is not enough space on the system partition. Looking in Disk Management, my reserved partition is 32 MB. How can I extend the system reserved partition, or will I have no choice but to do a clean install?

 

[USAFRet]

I have Windows 7 installed on a 240 GB SSD and want to upgrade to Windows 8 (and then 8.1...don't want to reinstall all my software if I can help it). When I run the Windows 8 setup, it says there is not enough space on the system partition. Looking in Disk Management, my reserved partition is 32 MB. How can I extend the system reserved partition, or will I have no choice but to do a clean install?

You don't install on that system reserved partition, nor do you mess with it.
Install on a different partition.

 

[AFort]

I have Windows 7 installed on a 240 GB SSD and want to upgrade to Windows 8 (and then 8.1...don't want to reinstall all my software if I can help it). When I run the Windows 8 setup, it says there is not enough space on the system partition. Looking in Disk Management, my reserved partition is 32 MB. How can I extend the system reserved partition, or will I have no choice but to do a clean install?

You don't install on that system reserved partition, nor do you mess with it.
Install on a different partition.

I understand that you don't install on the system reserved partition. I also tried a dual boot setup (with a separate partition created for Windows 8) and got the same message... Sounds like I'll have to clean install then...

 

[noidea_77]

Sounds like you missed the upgrade option somehow. An upgrade install should find the right partition automatically.

 

[AFort]

Sounds like you missed the upgrade option somehow. An upgrade install should find the right partition automatically.

It wouldn't even let me pick. It started setup, asked if I wanted to check for updates, and once it finished that, went right to the error message.

 

[USAFRet]

Sounds like you missed the upgrade option somehow. An upgrade install should find the right partition automatically.

It wouldn't even let me pick. It started setup, asked if I wanted to check for updates, and once it finished that, went right to the error message.

That is odd. Never seen that condition before.

 

[noidea_77]

Sounds like you missed the upgrade option somehow. An upgrade install should find the right partition automatically.

It wouldn't even let me pick. It started setup, asked if I wanted to check for updates, and once it finished that, went right to the error message.

That is odd. Never seen that condition before.

The SSD might be connected to a controller that needs a F6 driver even with win8?

 

[Pythor]

No, thats not it either.

I've tried the same, with an ISO on a flash drive and the 64 bit Win 8 Pro DVD. I cloned my Win 7 onto another drive, made an additional Reserved Partition 0x7 for the Win 8 install and another partition unallocated to put Win 8 on. Neither the original disk will upgrade, nor the cloned disk with blank Reserved System of 400 Megs and unallocated of 250 Gigs.I have no idea yet what is up. These are both SATA III Western Digital 500G Hard Drives.