error 0x80070570 on installation of Windows 8

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Recently my friend tried to install Mac OS Mountain lion and Lion on my PC and everything was fine, but I decided to go back and use Windows on my PC since I have Macbook Pro already, but the problem occur that when I'm trying to install Windows 8 on my PC it just keep give me error 0x80070570 when I did a research (Google) found that many people report could be that some device that attach cause the error.

I don't have any thing that attach to my PC at the moment, so that couldn't be a problem.

I found a topic posted here in superuser.com said that it can be fix but cancel it before when the error occur and re-do the installation again and should be fix, but that doesn't help.

I'm not sure if it is because of my hard drive is not format in the right way, so I'm trying to format it to the Windows format (NTFS) or (FAT32) but I don't know how to do that.

So I ask anyone who can assist me the way how to fix this error because I'm trying this for a day now

PS. I'm installing it on HP Pavillion using USB stick.

UPDATE

It just keep stopping and give me error at 60% so I'm not sure really what to do now :(

UPDATE2

What I have tried again here is reset the BIOS to the default setting (Incase something changed while we are trying to install Mac)

UPDATE3

I've tried to use the ISO for my Windows 7 tbat I'm sure it works because I'm running it on my Parallel and it works fine, so I'm not sure if this is because of the ISO problem or it is actually the partition problem.

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asked on Super User Aug 30, 2012 by Ali • edited Jan 21, 2013 by Sathyajith Bhat

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This can be caused by a bad "burn" of the DVD. Try burning another DVD and then installing from that. If your DVD burning software has a "Verify" option, use it. Also check the hash of your Windows 8 ISO file.

answered on Super User Aug 31, 2012 by Mark Allen
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I spent a few hours banging my head against the wall with this error. I will summarize all the suggestions the 'net in general suggested, which also mirrors what I tried:

  1. Change IDE/AHCI/RAID mode in Bios
  2. Updated the BIOS to the latest version
  3. MemTest and/or replace and/or remove RAM sticks
  4. Try a different DVD drive
  5. Try a USB install versus slow-burned DVD
  6. Try installation to a different hard drive
  7. Try Windows 8 and Windows 7

None of that worked, and I always got the same error consistently... until I installed a 32-bit version of Windows instead of the 64-bit versions that I had been trying. It doesn't seem to matter if it's Home Premium, Ultimate, etc., but for some reason my machine (a few years old Dell) doesn't like the 64-bit install. I end up losing access to about 750mb of RAM, which is irritating, but this installation nightmare is now over.

answered on Super User May 28, 2013 by Jason
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I spent a few days trying to solve this and came up with a pretty simple way to do this. It involves using DiskPart in order to create the bootable media. Once creating the bootable drive, you simply copy the files over, restart the machine and run it as per normal. I was using RUFUS which kept giving me the error as well as xboot and think that the software occasionally screws something up.

Run CMD as admin

STEP 1

Type "diskpart" and press enter

  • list volume
  • select volume x
    • x being the usb drive number
  • clean
  • create primary partition
  • format fs=ntfs quick
    • ntfs seems to work better than fat32, we use quick as large drives will take some time
  • assign letter=x
    • x being the letter of the drive, used for windows to view the drive

Step 1 can be done automatically by right clicking USB in My Computer and then clicking format

STEP 2

If using a ISO, mount it now. If using a DVD then the same instructions follow

Type:

  • x:
    • x being the letter of your drive the ISO is mounted too, DVD is inserted into
  • cd boot
  • bootsect /nt60 x:
    • x being the letter of the USB drive.

You should get a message on CMD saying: Successfully updated NTFS filesystem bootcode. Bootcode was successfully updated on all targeted volumes.

Now Simply open up your windows CD/ISO and copy all the files over to the USB. Restart your machine, set boot from USB in BIOS and you are good to go.

Hope this helps

answered on Super User Feb 11, 2015 by Katler

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