Windows setup cannot find a location to store temporary installation files как решить
«windows setup cannot find a location to store temporary installation files. To install windows, make sure that a partition on your boot disk has at least 686 megabytes (MB) of free space.
Original Title:Trying to RE-Install windows 7.
i am trying to re-install my os from windows 7 to windows 7, through USB flash drive since my laptab’s DVD drive is not working.
while i run the setupfile i am getting the following error message
«windows setup cannot find a location to store temporary installation files. To install windows, make sure that a partition on your boot disk has at least 686 megabytes (MB) of free space.
Error code: 0x80070490″
Can some one help me on this
How to find out if I have a 32 or 64Bit version of Windows installed on my computer:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/find-out-32-or-64-bit
Windows 7 Home Premium 32Bit: http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/win/X17-58996.iso
SHA1 Hash value: 6071b4553fcf0ea53d589a846b5ae76743dd68fc
Windows 7 Home Premium 64Bit: http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/win/X17-58997.iso
SHA1 Hash value: 6c9058389c1e2e5122b7c933275f963edf1c07b9
Windows 7 Professional 32Bit: http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/win/X17-59183.iso
SHA1 Hash value: d89937df3a9bc2ec1a1486195fd308cd3dade928
Windows 7 Professional 64Bit: http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/win/X17-59186.iso
SHA1 Hash value: 0bcfc54019ea175b1ee51f6d2b207a3d14dd2b58
Windows 7 Ultimate 32Bit: http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/win/X17-59463.iso
SHA1 Hash value: 65fce0f445d9bf7e78e43f17e441e08c63722657
Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit: http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/win/X17-59465.iso
SHA1 Hash value: 36ae90defbad9d9539e649b193ae573b77a71c83
3) Next use ImgBurn (or Gear ISO) to create a bootable DVD.
Note: Skip to step #4 to create a bootable Flash / Thumb drive.
Choose the “Custom Installation (advanced)” option and remove the check mark(s)
to eliminate unwanted options.
Screen shots to help you use ImgBurn: http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=screenshots
Burning ISO Images with ImgBurn article: http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/G/Burning+ISO+Images+with+ImgBurn
(The steps are the same for Windows 7 or Windows 8), except you are not creating a Repair disc but a full installation DVD)
Note: Always use high quality DVD+R media and the slowest burn speed (4x or 6x) if offered a choice.
Windows Setup cannot find a location to store temporary installation files
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Do you have 931 megabytes of free space on that partition?
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If setup is not offering you the option to select a partition to store temporary files, you need to use an external drive.
Here are steps how to do that:
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Hi Lukito, I am Dexter, an Independent Advisor, here to help you.
Refer to the System requirements for installing Windows 10, you need at least 16 GB for 32-bit OS 32 GB for 64-bit OS.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows.
You’ve mentioned you’re using Linux, I wonder are you tried to install Windows 10 in a virtual machine?
I hope this helps. Feel free to ask back any questions and let me know how it goes. I will keep working with you until it’s resolved.
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Okay. I’m sorry I haven’t used Wine in a long time. I don’t have much input.
I found this post from the MS Community, that may help.
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/for.
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Refer to the System requirements for installing Windows 10, you need at least 16 GB for 32-bit OS 32 GB for 64-bit OS.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows.
You’ve mentioned you’re using Linux, I wonder are you tried to install Windows 10 in a virtual machine?
Even though I’ve resized it to be 17gb, it still shows me the same problem
Never tried, but my PC is probably gonna die trying, it is a really crappy PC
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Well, I assume you’re installing windows 10 within Linux by Wine, am I right?
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Bingo! The result is that you can’t install such a Windows by using Wine in Linux, that’s impossible because Wine is used to run some of the programs coded for Windows( not for everyone ). If you intend to install Windows 10 and run it within Linux, I suggest you use VirtualBox and create a VM to perform this.
Here is the official website of VirtualBox, you should have a look at.
https://www.virtualbox.org/
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Receiving error when installing Windows 7 «Windows setup cannot find a location to store temporary installation files»
Current OS: Windows XP SP 3
Windows 7 Upgrade: 32 bit Premimum Family Pack
Hardware: Dell Dimensions 3000
I have read a number of different solutions to resolve this issue. None have worked. I have 25 gb of free space on my C drive. I have formatted a dvd using the Windows 7 USB DVD downlaod tool.
I ran a sfc /scannow to repair any system files
Does anyone have any other suggestions on how to perform this upgrade?
Try these following suggestions:
The error 0x80070005 occurs if the upgrade has no permission to writecertain folder. Try the following steps:
1. Please download the subinacl.msi file from the following link and save the installation patch onto the Desktop:
2. Please go to the Desktop and double click the downloaded file.
3. Please select the C:\Windows\System32 folder as the Destination Folder during the installation. Later we will use this tool to reset the permission settings on the current machine.
4. Click the «Start» Button, in the «Start Search» bar, type: «notepad» (without quotes) and press Enter.
5. Copy the following commands and then paste them into the opened Notepad window:
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=administrators=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=administrators=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=administrators=f
subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=administrators=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=system=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=system=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=system=f
subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=system=f
6. After pasting the above commands, please close the Notepad window. Choose «Save» when you are prompted to save the file. Type «reset.bat» as the file name and choose «Desktop» from the left panel as the save location.
7. Refer to the Desktop and right click the reset.bat file, then choose «Run as administrator.»
8. You will see a DOS-like window processing.
NOTE: It may take several minutes, please be patient. When it is finished, you will be prompted with the message: «Finished, press any key to continue».
If same thing happens, let’s move to the next step.
Run the upgrade by using the Built-in Administrator
1. Click the Start button->All Programs->Accessories.
2. Right click Command Prompt and select «Run as administrator».
3. Click Continue when the User Account Control window appears.
4. Copy the following command and press Enter:
net user administrator /active:yes
5. Restart the computer and then log into the computer by this Administrator account.
6. Run windows 7 upgrade.
BTW, for your references, I found some similar issues:
Windows setup cannot find a location to store temporary installation files как решить
Вопрос
I am trying to upgrade Windows 2008 R2 DataCenter to Windows 2012 DataCenter
When starting Upgrade I get the all Blue screen with «Install Now» followed by failure discussed many times Microsoft forums:
Windows Setup cannot find a location to store temporary files.. Error code: 0x80070490
There is plenty of disk space in Windows 2008 disks, also on Boot disk I created a big (16GB) partition just in case.
The hardware is a old IBM server Intel Xeon 3Ghz 64Bit. Not sure if Board is supported by Windows 2012, but again the message is about space for temporary files.
Any idea is welcome
Ответы
16 GB is not a big partition. You can see if your server is supported by Windows Server 2012 by searching on www.windowsservercatalog.com.
The free space must be on the system disk, not on other disks. How much space exists on the disk partition on which you currently have Windows Server 2008 R2 installed?
You say that you are trying to upgrade from 2008 R2. Is this R2 or R2 SP1? According to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj574204.aspx upgrade from R2 SP1 is allowed, but not R2.
I worked fine so far, installing patches from Windows Update, looking at it using Remote Desktop, restart, bi-directional sharing, and data preservation in C: + D:
Hope it will survive 2012. For me it’s onwards to experience my first 2012.
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16 GB is not a big partition. You can see if your server is supported by Windows Server 2012 by searching on www.windowsservercatalog.com.
The free space must be on the system disk, not on other disks. How much space exists on the disk partition on which you currently have Windows Server 2008 R2 installed?
You say that you are trying to upgrade from 2008 R2. Is this R2 or R2 SP1? According to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj574204.aspx upgrade from R2 SP1 is allowed, but not R2.
I agree with Tim, he has provided the right suggestions to your question. As he mentioned, we must make sure that your server is supported by Windows Server 2012. Secondly, we should make sure that there is enough free space on the system disk partition to install Windows Server 2012. Then we should also make sure that the current OS version could be upgrade to Windows Server 2012. For details, please refer to the article Tim provided above.
The Windows 2008 DataCenter is R2 SP1
I will check if system is on supported/certified list for 2012.
IBM x236 Tower Case
— Dual Pentium Xeon 3.0Ghz,
800Mhz Bus, 1MB L2 Cache
— 3GB ECC DDR2 Total Memory
— 4 x 73.4GB Hot-Swap U32 15K
— IBM ServeRAID-6M SCSI Controller
— Ultra320 Internal Single-drop 24”
— IBM 16X Max RAM-Read
— IBM xSeries 670W Hot-Swap 2nd
— IBM 160/320GB SDLT Internal Tape
— Intel PRO/1000 MT NIC (2nd card)
The error message is shown in attached image. Thanks.
Regarding the current issue, I suggest we could refer to the similar thread below as reference. Please try the method Zephyrhu provided in the thread to see if it could work. Hope this helps.
For such an old box, you are most likely going to run into driver issues that may prevent you from being able to run Windows Server 2012 on the system. The fact that the system wasn’t even qualified for 2008 almost guarantees this.
But, if you really want to continue (and most likely fail later), I would try to increase the size of available space on the current 2008 partition. 20GB sounds like a lot, but Windows Server 2012 specifies a minimum volume size of 32 GB for installation. So my guess (I can’t find anything specific) is that it is saying it needs space for itself and for the Windows.old directory, and it does not like the fact that it is only finding 20 GB of space.
I increased free space on C: to 74 GB but the message is the same with same «missing» 1198 MB size.
Is there any log/trace for this error message?
I am going to guess on this. I think you are getting the blue screen because it is such as old box. The message about not enough space is bogus. I have seen the message about not enough space come up, even on boxes that are fully supported by Windows Server 2012, and I ignore the error and things proceed without a problem. When I have received this message, it is always when I have had to install a device driver during the installation process in order for the disk that I am going to install to needs a driver. It really sounds like you are hitting a similar issue. Windows Server 2012 does not recognize the driver for your disk, and it is getting a bogus response from the existing device that ends up getting reported as a lack of space. Again, this is guessing on my part, but it is very similar to something I have seen in my environment.
Before you proceed, find out if there is a 2012 device driver for the disk controller. Then, to really validate it, try to make a clean installation on the host. During the installation process, when you select the drive to which you are going to install, load the proper device driver.
Installation Fails Error code: 0x80070490
techguy7
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I’m trying to install Windows 7 from within XP (dual boot or upgrade). I get about 5 seconds into the install and encounter the following:
«Windows Setup cannot find a location to store temporary installation files. to install Windows, make sure that a partition on your boot disk has at least 655 megabytes (MB) of free space.»
Error code: 0x80070490
Current disk setup:
C:\ 74.5GB total 44.8GB free (locally attached)
F:\ 74.5GB total 71.9GB free (USB attached)
G:\ 298GB total 219GB free (locally attached)
H:\ 186GB total 99.7GB free (USB attached)
As you can see, I have plenty of free space on every disk. I still have a few options to try but was wondering if anyone could shed some light on this issue.
mahenrytx
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Mysticmaster
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Vadim Cool
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Fresh install is good!
People, people, people. I did the fresh and clean install of Win7 from Win XP even and it still made me a copy of my old Windows folders such as (Documents and Settings, Program Files, Windows) placing them on C drive in a folder Windows.old. And it kept my other folders that I created on my C drive Win XP and it didn’t delete them! So I don’t know why but it didn’t delete them. And you can even go and see for yourself when clicking on fresh install it wil tell you that it will make a backup of your old Windows before it goes to install anything new!
Silahtar
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Windows Setup cannot find a location to store temporary installation files. to install Windows, make sure that a partition on your boot disk has at least 655 megabytes (MB) of free space.
Error code: 0x80070490
I have plenty of space on all my partitions. I do not have the installation discs, just the download files, and I can not burn an ISO to disc because there is no ISO. I am not sure how to proceed.
Thanks for any help you can give me.
Darilov
New Member
Easy fix most of us overlooked.
Ok I was installing a brand new copy of Win 7 home premium edition and forgot to partition a couple of drives and ended up having to re-install the OS again. When I tried to do it I got that same error message that all of of you have been getting «Windows Setup cannot find a location to store temporary installation files. to install Windows, make sure that a partition on your boot disk has at least 655 megabytes (MB) of free space.»
The simple reason for that is because Windows cannot initiate a reinstallation within itself. So basically you have to go back to the bios and make sure you’re booting from the optical drive where the cd installation is. But here is the catch: Windows 7 will NOT TELL YOU to press any key to start from the CD. Thats what you have to do in order to actually boot from the CD otherwise Win 7 will start as normal and you’ll be back to square one. So make sure as the computer is restarting to press any key so that it will take to the setup screen from the CD and not from the OS. Good luck guys. It worked for me