I have Intel i7, Win 7 64 bit, and I was able to solve this problem by downloading the Windows SDK 7.1 (iso image) from this link.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/F/1/0/F10113F5-B750-4969-A255-274341AC6BCE/GRMSDKX_EN_DVD.iso
I tried several downloads, and it was the only one actually containing the file .. / setup / WinSDK _amd64 \ WinSDK_amd64.msi that refers to the error message.
Before finding this download, I tried to remove every C ++ instance distributed for each version of Visual Studio that I installed. This in itself did not work, because the other Win 7 SDK downloads I downloaded did not contain the file .. / setup / WinSDK _amd64 \ WinSDK_amd64.msi, which is referenced by the error message.
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