I suspect there is a 128 GB limitation in the BIOS/Motherboard for that tiny M.2 board.
Suggest an 128GB or better yet, sell that N22 on Ebay (etc.) and get a laptop that supports windows 11 and much larger storage. Windows 10 is going away.
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Right on that limitation. He should get a refurb laptop at Dell. About $300.
https://tinyurl.com/2wktmvbz
Or buy on Ebay. I see loads of great 17.3” laptops of Ebay after Christmas.
Windoz Ten is OUT! All mine use Windows 11.
I got a good deal on a Dell 5490 w/ Win 11 on a 256 GB NVMe drive, and an i7-8650 CPU a bit B4 Christmas. I upped it to 16 GB of DRAM and added an Internal 256 GB SATA M.2 drive for data storage, the page file (shouldn’t get used much), etc. That replaced my HP ProBook which died (no video output internal or external at any time, even @ initial boot-up.)
The N22 is for when I need something even more portable or I am doing something “lesser” in parallel (probably on FR while eating lunch or something like that - hahaha. Well, ok, that’s a light workout for even the N22.)
So far, Win 11 is not too bad (though to be honest, in many ways I like the ol’ Win 7 Pro GUI better.)
Setting up a new machine w/ a fresh OS install (not to mention all the programs I use) is a lot of work, however. Program installs go FAST on the 5490, but there’s usually still a lot to do in the way of OS and programs settings, maybe installing custom dictionaries in the wordprocessor, and so on. From past experience, I’ll be occasionally running into those issues on the Dell for at least several months...
Heck, I still have a (quick) Win7 Pro desktop machine I’m typing this on right now. On it I limit web browsing to only very safe websites. Otherwise it does everything else I need out of it. And, it doesn’t nag me about updates, run any risk of an update crash / temporary disabling of the machine until I can restore it, etc. (Yeah, that - an update crash that killed Windows) - has actually happened to me twice. Not on this machine, though!)
Cloning alleviates most of those issues.
(It occurs to me that the only MS OS’s I don’t have some version of on some working machine are Win 8, Win ME, and any of the server specific stuff. Although... the Vista laptop is hopeless - I may try getting into Linux on it, someday.)
So, I’m partially between someone like you, and the people who’d still be using Windows 1 if it could be made to work decently for web browsing. ;-)