# Unable to start Elasticsearch on my local Windows system

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-start-elasticsearch-on-my-local-windows-system/293202>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 30, 2021, 1:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-start-elasticsearch-on-my-local-windows-system/293202 "2021-12-30T13:11:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![gauravraje](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e274bd/32.png) [@gauravraje](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/gauravraje)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2021, 1:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-start-elasticsearch-on-my-local-windows-system/293202/1 "2021-12-30T13:11:11Z")

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Team,

I have downloaded Elasticsearch on my local system but when i am trying to open/start elastic server from bin/Elasticsearch.bat, we are facing below issue  
 ![ea18b45d-7fb2-4951-be31-1ee75d03c401](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/6/1668568cdbe32dd61237a82a3bc1e1f9a364c56f.jpeg)

plz share possible steps to launch Elasticsearch successfully .

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2022, 5:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-start-elasticsearch-on-my-local-windows-system/293202/2 "2022-01-04T05:57:22Z")

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Please don't post pictures of text, logs or code. They are difficult to read, impossible to search and replicate (if it's code), and some people may not be even able to see them 🙂

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2022, 8:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-start-elasticsearch-on-my-local-windows-system/293202/3 "2022-01-04T08:54:43Z")

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Elasticsearch is only available as a 64-bit process. Exactly which OS are you running?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2022, 8:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/unable-to-start-elasticsearch-on-my-local-windows-system/293202/4 "2022-02-01T08:55:02Z")

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