ERROR Windows 10 - Setup cannot continue due to corrupted installation file

[kylerogers99]

Hi,

I seem to be having a hard time trying to install Windows 10 as a fresh install onto my custom built pc.

Motherboard: ASROCK Z270 Fatal1ty mITX
CPU: i7-7700
RAM: HyperX 2x4GB 2666MHz
Graphics Card: ASUs strix gtx 1080
Psu: Corsair sf450
OS: windows 10 Pro
SSD: Dell / Toshiba 512GB M.2 NVME PCIE 7VPP2

I had windows fully working but one morning it wouldn’t boot properly and windows automatic repair couldn’t fix it. So I decided to clean the ssd using diskpart and reinstall windows 10. But I now get an error

“Setup cannot continue due to corrupted installation file”

This is using windows media creation tool, I have also tried using rufus but both come up with the same error.

Nothing seems to work.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Kind regards

Kyle

 

[Colif]

have you tried to run chkdsk on the USB?

Have you tried another USB?

unlikely: maybe its the media creation tool you have installed, it might be creating corrupted installers. Seems unlikely though to do it twice, as you need to use it 2nd time to get ISO to use with Rufus.

Try another PC to make installer?

 

[smorizio]

make sure with disk tools the mbr is wiped if the mbr is damaged windows wont install.

 

[kylerogers99]

Thank you for your replies, I purchased a brand new usb stick, formatted it and again used windows media creation tool but comes up with the same error.

It seems to fail when it’s on the “installing updates” section.

Wipe the mbr Of the ssd or usb? How would I go about doing that?

 

[Colif]

So ssd is blank and there is no other drive in PC?

Wiping mbr doesn't apply in that case as ssd is blank

can you install without internet access? then it can't install any updates.

 

[kylerogers99]

The ssd did have my old windows 10 on it but I used diskpart to clean it. It is the only drive plugged in yes.

I have tried with and without an Ethernet cable plugged in. Same error both times.

 

[Colif]

Try this

I just went round and round with this. 2 different USB keys, 3 different DVDs burned from 2 different ISOs, even threw up my hands and purchased a copy from the store. Same damn error for all of them. Tried deleting the partitions, but didn't help.

In the end, i finally just zeroed the first MB of the hard drive I was installing to so the installer would have to start from scratch.

After that, windows 10 installed first try. Its too bad the installed cant give us a proper error message.

To zero the beginning of the drive, i used Univeral Boot CD, dropped into Parted Magic, opened a terminal and ran

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M count=1

Hope this saves someone else some time.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-windows_install-winpc/trying-to-reinstall-windows-10-and-getting-a/82c4f5fb-9ce5-4ee1-87df-71be47b26bad

 

[kylerogers99]

Try this

In the end, i finally just zeroed the first MB of the hard drive I was installing to so the installer would have to start from scratch.

After that, windows 10 installed first try. Its too bad the installed cant give us a proper error message.

To zero the beginning of the drive, i used Univeral Boot CD, dropped into Parted Magic, opened a terminal and ran

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M count=1

Hope this saves someone else some time.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-windows_install-winpc/trying-to-reinstall-windows-10-and-getting-a/82c4f5fb-9ce5-4ee1-87df-71be47b26bad[/

I have seen this thread already but I’m not sure how to zero the first MB. He doesn’t explain how to do it exactly. Any ideas?

 

[Colif]

he says to use this: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ to boot PC. He actually said Universal but google doesn't find that one. The program is on this though.

and run Parted Magic which is on the drive. It has a terminal window and the command he used was
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M count=1

this has a similar version of same command so it looks right: https://www.technibble.com/forums/threads/parted-magic-which-is-the-correct-wipe-program.39237/