Need serious help.

[Aviricia]

So my girlfriend and I decided to give her younger brother our oldish Pc. (It's not old as in hugely outdated it's got an i5-6500 on a z170 board) Anywho. I moved all of her files off of her Hdd and I downloaded a Windows 10 media creating tool from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 and put it on a 16gb and a 32gb Thumb drive. Still have the same error. (Mind you I have formatted the Hdd, I have cleaned it and converted it to gpt) But the error I keep getting is "Setup cannot continue due to a corrupted installation file. Contact the vendor of your windows installation disk or your system administrator for assistance" I have spoke with Microsoft and even used their live chat with a remote assistance tool to try and get this to work. But to no avail. am I missing something?

 

[InvalidError]

Well, that sounds like the install image got corrupted for some reason. There isn't much you can do about it other than re-download to a known-good USB drive on a known-good PC to avoid the risk that either the PC or thumb-drives you've tried have problems. It would be nice if Microsoft added an integrity check and repair function to its downloader.

 

[Aviricia]

Well, that sounds like the install image got corrupted for some reason. There isn't much you can do about it other than re-download to a known-good USB drive on a known-good PC to avoid the risk that either the PC or thumb-drives you've tried have problems. It would be nice if Microsoft added an integrity check and repair function to its downloader.

The problem is I did just that. I've redownloaded it atleasy 7-8 times now. Bought a brand new thumb drive just to make sure it wasn't the thumbdrive.

 

[Paul NZ]

Use rufus if you didnt. http://rufus.akeo.ie/

Change it to GPT (if it's got a UEFI BIOS), add iso wait for it to finish. Reboot boot from flash drive.

Make sure secureboot, AHCI and UEFI are enabled in the BIOS, if it's got a UEFI BIOS first. And if it's 64 bit

When you get to setup delete all partitions first then reinstall

 

[InvalidError]

Run memtest86 to see if bad memory or some other memory-related issue might be corrupting data.