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The "WindowsProblems" page has been changed by SteveLoughran: https://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/WindowsProblems?action=diff&rev1=4&rev2=5 Comment: clarify the install process better You can fix this problem in two ways 1. Install a full native windows Hadoop version. The ASF does not currently (September 2015) release such a version; releases are available externally. - 1. Get the `WINUTILS.EXE` binary from a Hadoop redistribution. There is a repository of this for some Hadoop versions [[https://github.com/steveloughran/winutils|on github]]. + 1. Or: get the `WINUTILS.EXE` binary from a Hadoop redistribution. There is a repository of this for some Hadoop versions [[https://github.com/steveloughran/winutils|on github]]. + + Then 1. Set the environment variable `%HADOOP_HOME%` to point to the directory above the `BIN` dir containing `WINUTILS.EXE`. 1. Or: run the Java process with the system property `hadoop.home.dir` set to the home directory.