0x80070570 Error Code on install - One Easy Solution

thanks for telling them , they're flooded with all sorts of setup issues (most of which are resolved with hardware removal)

oli said:

thanks for telling them , they're flooded with all sorts of setup issues (most of which are resolved with hardware removal)

Completely unnecessary hardware removal at that ... they had me take out everything and THAT still didn't fix it ... I put it all back in again and this did :)

Simples !

Crazy B

That was the first thing I did was to try again without reboot.

I am tempted to return the DVD to the shop I got it and ask for another one. When I got the Win 7 DVD I noticed a manufacturing scratch on the surface.

I get to 13% when I get the error. Now I am trying to remove the RAM and all. If this does keep up I will see if I can exchange for another disc.

I pulled 2 or the 4 DDR2 chips. Worked!

Reinserted them post-install.

I'm still having little problems like no internet connectivity when the win firewall is in place... etc.

Just needs a little tweeking.

Skip to the end of my post for a brief summary!

I bought the student version of the Windows 7 upgrade. I bought it with the intention to install in on a new hard drive in my laptop. I soon realised that the upgrade version required an old version of Windows to be beneath it in order to perform the install.

I dug up an old XP disk and used that. I then started the custom install of Windows 7 by booting with a DVD I made from the downloadable Windows 7 ISO file.

I formatted my drives and created the partitions as I wanted them (I have a feeling this may have been the thing that caused all of the problems). The format seemed to take less than 5 seconds which didn't seem quite right but who knows.

Next I went to install Windows 7 and got the same error that everyone has talked about here. I got it around 30% of the expanding section. I repeated this a few times without rebooting and never got any further.

I then used Memtest86+ to check my RAM. This took around 2 hours: no errors found.

I downloaded a new copy of the Windows 7 ISO and burnt a new copy of the ISO onto DVD using Nero (My previous DVD was made using NTI).

I performed a fresh installation of Windows XP with only one partition. I used the new boot disk and did not change any of the partition settings and did not format. I selected the partition with Windows XP on it and clicked OK when the "Windows Old" message came up.

This time the file extraction ran all the way through to 100% with no problems and I have got Windows 7 up and running.



To summarise, the possible factors causing my error could have been:

1) A faulty ISO downloaded from the Microsoft shop.

2) A faulty boot DVD (either due to the DVD itself, DVD writing software or the actual writing process).

3) Using the format and partition tools in the Windows 7 setup.

4) A bad installation of Windows XP.


I would advise the first port of call would be to make a new copy of the ISO boot DVD (try using the lowest write speed possible and make sure to make a DVD image or complete copy). This takes no time at all.

Second would be to try again without adjusting the format settings in the install process.

Third would be checking for RAM errors with a free download of Memtest which takes a while but could well be the problem.

I hope that helps someone, it took me 5 hours to get through the whole process.

well DP7657, I hope your solution will work for me as well... I'm currently installing XP on my desktop and hoping that it isn't a RAM problem because i have no way of scaning my RAM w/o an OS, right?
Well, no matter, it just finished installing XP but it is taking for ever to get to the the log in screen. Why? I don't know... I will try the Memtest and see how that goes...

I need help on this though...
I just remembered another problem that i have when XP is installed... When I'm logged in and all, I check out the "Task Manager" and to my surprise it is using 28KB for the "System Idle Process" and it is at 99% steadily. So why does it take for ever to load things?

I tried what was suggested in this thread and it doesn't work for me. Maybe it got further in "expanding" files. But I still got the 800705570 (files missing or corrupt) error.