The binary distribution of Apache Hadoop 2.2.0 release does not contain some windows native components (like winutils.exe, hadoop.dll etc). These are required (not optional) to run Hadoop on Windows. So you need to build windows native binary distribution of hadoop from source codes following "BUILD.txt" file located inside the source ... More @Wikipedia
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