


As a last resort I swapped the HDD with an old 80Gb one, and I received the same messages in both installations. Make sure all the files required for installation are available, and r. And I got the same message with different error code, at the same stage of installation! ( 0x80070570). Windows Cannot Install Required Files Windows 10Windows Cannot Install Required Files. That's where the weird part begun, after all those failed attempts, I tried to install Windows 7 Pro from a DVD I had. Finally, I tried with a DVD medium, no luck again. Then I redownloaded Windows 8 and still the same thing. I thought it was the usb stick, so I changed the stick and I had the same problem. Everything was going smoothly when at the second stage of installation "Preparing files for installation" an error message appeared saying "Windows cannot install required files. I have an article written on this on how to do it Create Bootable Windows 7 USB Once this is done, you can boot from the usb and try to install it.

I downloaded Windows 8 and used a USB Stick to boot it. Download the Windows 7 ISO File on a different computer and write it to a USB Drive. I have an 750Gb HDD on which I was planning to install them. Hi all, I tried to do a clean installation of Windows 8 on my recently formatted computer.
