# Installation failed
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installation-failed/150450
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [September 30, 2018, 3:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installation-failed/150450 "2018-09-30T03:21:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@overdrive](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/overdrive)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2018, 3:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installation-failed/150450/1 "2018-09-30T03:21:54Z")
Installing ES on Win10. Downgraded Java to 1.8...getting the error below. Any suggestions?
[2018-09-29T23:06:51,240][INFO][o.e.n.Node] [my\_first\_node] initializing ...
[2018-09-29T23:06:51,334][WARN][o.e.b.ElasticsearchUncaughtExceptionHandler] [my\_first\_node] uncaught exception in thread [main]
org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.StartupException: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to create node environment
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:140) ~[elasticsearch-6.4.1.jar:6.4.1]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.execute(Elasticsearch.java:127) ~[elasticsearch-6.4.1.jar:6.4.1]
at org.elasticsearch.cli.EnvironmentAwareCommand.execute(EnvironmentAwareCommand.java:86) ~[elasticsearch-6.4.1.jar:6.4.1]
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.mainWithoutErrorHandling(Command.java:124) ~[elasticsearch-cli-6.4.1.jar:6.4.1]
at org.elasticsearch.cli.Command.main(Command.java:90) ~[elasticsearch-cli-6.4.1.jar:6.4.1]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:93) ~[elasticsearch-6.4.1.jar:6.4.1]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.main(Elasticsearch.java:86) ~[elasticsearch-6.4.1.jar:6.4.1]
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Failed to create node environment
at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:277) ~[elasticsearch-6.4.1.jar:6.4.1]
at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:256) ~[elasticsearch-6.4.1.jar:6.4.1]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap$5.(Bootstrap.java:213) ~[elasticsearch-6.4.1.jar:6.4.1]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:213) ~[elasticsearch-6.4.1.jar:6.4.1]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:326) ~[elasticsearch-6.4.1.jar:6.4.1]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:136) ~[elasticsearch-6.4.1.jar:6.4.1]
... 6 more
Caused by: java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: C:\ProgramData\Elastic\Elasticsearch\data\nodes\0\_state\node-0.st
at sun.nio.fs.WindowsException.translateToIOException(WindowsException.java:83) ~[?:?]
at sun.nio.fs.WindowsException.rethrowAsIOException(WindowsException.java:97) ~[?:?]
at sun.nio.fs.WindowsException.rethrowAsIOException(WindowsException.java:102) ~[?:?]
at sun.nio.fs.WindowsFileSystemProvider.implDelete(WindowsFileSystemProvider.java:269) ~[?:?]
at sun.nio.fs.AbstractFileSystemProvider.deleteIfExists(AbstractFileSystemProvider.java:108) ~[?:?]
at java.nio.file.Files.deleteIfExists(Files.java:1165) ~[?:1.8.0\_181]
at org.elasticsearch.gateway.MetaDataStateFormat.cleanupOldFiles(MetaDataStateFormat.java:222) ~[elasticsearch-6.4.1.jar:6.4.1]
at org.elasticsearch.gateway.MetaDataStateFormat.write(MetaDataStateFormat.java:157) ~[elasticsearch-6.4.1.jar:6.4.1]
at org.elasticsearch.env.NodeEnvironment.loadOrCreateNodeMetaData(NodeEnvironment.java:362) ~[elasticsearch-6.4.1.jar:6.4.1]
at org.elasticsearch.env.NodeEnvironment.(NodeEnvironment.java:245) ~[elasticsearch-6.4.1.jar:6.4.1]
at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:274) ~[elasticsearch-6.4.1.jar:6.4.1]
at org.elasticsearch.node.Node.(Node.java:256) ~[elasticsearch-6.4.1.jar:6.4.1]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap$5.(Bootstrap.java:213) ~[elasticsearch-6.4.1.jar:6.4.1]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.setup(Bootstrap.java:213) ~[elasticsearch-6.4.1.jar:6.4.1]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Bootstrap.init(Bootstrap.java:326) ~[elasticsearch-6.4.1.jar:6.4.1]
at org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch.init(Elasticsearch.java:136) ~[elasticsearch-6.4.1.jar:6.4.1]
... 6 more
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: Cannot open file logs/gc.log due to No such file or directory
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### Author:  [@overdrive](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/overdrive)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2018, 3:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installation-failed/150450/2 "2018-09-30T03:40:31Z")
Nvm. Reinstalled, selected "used local system account" under account info and ES is now working.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2018, 3:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installation-failed/150450/3 "2018-10-28T03:40:34Z")
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