Installing Windows 7 on a Dell Inspiron 1530: Error 0x80070570

The error reads:

"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"

To troubleshoot this, I tried many different things and became extremely frustrated.  Since the error gives a vague hint towards the possibility of file corruption (sarcasm), I immediately assumed that something was wrong with the drive or the disc.

I tried burning a new copy (Windows 7 Ultimate x64 edition, BTW) at a slower speed, but that didn't seem to make any difference. 

Originally, I was just trying to upgrade the machine from Windows Vista, so I checked with the user to see if they would mind if I wiped the disk clean and installed 7 fresh... fortunately, the hard drive was recently replaced and they didn't have much on there anyway (this then made me skeptical about the idea that the drive was bad... although it was still a possibility).  I started the process again, recreating the partitions and installing from scratch.


This also yielded the same results.  Fail.

So I screwed with this system on and off over the next few days.  I found that nothing I did would make much of a difference.  I tried the following:

1. Replacing the hard drive.  Fail.
2. Using different RAM.  Fail.
3. Making a fully verified copy of the DVD before installing.  Fail.
4. Copying files to a formatted hard drive and installing from there.  Fail.
5. Making sure that the Windows 7 installer had up-to-date drivers for the SATA controller (even though it could already see the drive anyway) before installing.  Fail.
6. Installing from a USB drive with both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions.  Fail.

I really believe that Dell designed this model to only allow you to install Windows Vista or XP... which, at the time this machine was sold, was the latest Microsoft OS.

FINALLY FOUND A SOLUTION.

Only thing to do here was to reinstall Windows Vista and then perform an upgrade to the appropriate version of Windows 7.  This actually worked.  In my case, I installed Windows Vista Enterprise x86 and then upgraded to Windows 7 Enterprise x86.

Voila!

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