As per Brahma i have followed the procedure he mentioned to build the Hadoop in windows 8.1 64bit system and i was successful but unable to run the Hadoop.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-11752?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel Followed below procedure for building Hadoop and successful in building it: http://zutai.blogspot.in/2014/06/build-install-and-run-hadoop-24-240-on.html?showComment=1422091525887#c2264594416650430988 *Runtime error while running Hadoop in Windows 8.1 64bit system:* When i try to do hdfs namenode -format, i am getting the below error: *C:\Users\..\hadoop>hdfs namenode -format'hdfs' is not recognized as an internal or external command,operable program or batch file.* *C:\Users\..\hadoop>start-dfs'start-dfs' is not recognized as an internal or external command,operable program or batch file.* *C:\Users\..\hadoop\hadoop-dist\target\hadoop-3.0.0-SNAPSHOT\sbin>hdfs namenode -format'hdfs' is not recognized as an internal or external command,operable program or batch file.* *C:\Users\..\hadoop\hadoop-dist\target\hadoop-3.0.0-SNAPSHOT\sbin>start-dfs* *The system cannot find the file hadoop.The system cannot find the file hadoop.* Can you please let me know how to format hdfs, start DFS, YARN and run the hadoop on windows 8.1 64bit system. -- Thanks & Regards, Sravan CPChem 281-757-6777 (C) | kum...@cpchem.com <kum...@cpchemt.com>