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Issue:
I am trying to fresh install Windows 10 to my fully unallocated Samsung 950 NVMe drive, with every attempt at around 9-10% it either errors out with
Error code: 0x80070570 saying Windows cannot install required files. The file may be corrupt or missing. Make sure all files required for installation are available, and restart the installation.
Sometimes shortly after it will blue screen with varying different issues, usually related to drivers or memory.
Troubleshooting:
After hours of research on Google with little to no finds specific to my case (of course not until after the fact), I ended up going piece by piece.
I disconnected every piece of I/O, my GTX 1060, my storage drives, reseated my DDR4 sticks, except for my mouse/keyboard dongle, a DVI cable, and the bootable flash drive. No changes. I tried multiple different flash drives with different ISOs and different programs for creating them (Rufus, Microsoft's MediaCreationTool, manually). I tried using other devices and platforms to write to the bootable flash drive. I tried a live session of Ubuntu 16.04 and everything was fine, I installed Ubuntu and everything still worked. I tried resetting everything in my BIOS back to default (ASUS Z170 chipset), removing any overclocking or alterations. I tried Windows Home versus Pro and made more progress than ever but still ended up erroring out around 60 to 70%, and then continuing the same pattern.
Possible duplicate: https://superuser.com/questions/1143790/windows-cannot-install-required-files-the-file-may-be-corrupt-or-missing-0x80
– Norr – 2017-04-22T04:57:23.560