hello, i've built a rig with my coworker's old parts which work pretty damn well, but at the time i didn't have the money to buy a hard drive, but i did however have a 320gb hard drive from my girlfriend's recently deceased (at the time) dell laptop. it's a 320gb western digital, and i was able to mount it on the case and install windows 8.1 (from scratch, no upgrades) with a disc that my coworker also gave me, but i had to buy my own key. anyways now i bought a seagate barracuda 500gb 7200 rpm hd from best buy and i assumed i could just do a clean install and then copy my files over, nope! it gives me this error when trying to install:
Windows cannot install required files. The file may be corrupt or missing. Make sure all files required for installation are available and restart the installation. Error code 0x80070570.
this is the complicated part, i use my original hd to boot to windows, format the new drive, try again, and nope! same thing! and i'm using the same disc that i installed the os with for the first time on the laptop drive. also i tried using macrium reflect to clone the drives and it would give me a message saying it was unable to clone as well, didn't specify why though. so what are my options now? i regret not waiting to just buy 3.5" hd before installing windows because now i'm stuck -__-
computer specs if they help:
unknown model asus motherboard, intel core 2 duo e8500 processor, 2gb x2 ballistix ram, and nvidia geforce gtx 660
Windows cannot install required files. The file may be corrupt or missing. Make sure all files required for installation are available and restart the installation. Error code 0x80070570.
this is the complicated part, i use my original hd to boot to windows, format the new drive, try again, and nope! same thing! and i'm using the same disc that i installed the os with for the first time on the laptop drive. also i tried using macrium reflect to clone the drives and it would give me a message saying it was unable to clone as well, didn't specify why though. so what are my options now? i regret not waiting to just buy 3.5" hd before installing windows because now i'm stuck -__-
computer specs if they help:
unknown model asus motherboard, intel core 2 duo e8500 processor, 2gb x2 ballistix ram, and nvidia geforce gtx 660
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