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How can I tell if a downloaded ISO is complete?

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Mar 15, 202620083 views
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I just ran into a nasty problem with an ISO download from Microsoft. I successfully burnt it to a rewritable DVD, and copied the contents to the local hard drive on another machine, but when I went to run them they were corrupt. It turns out the download had been truncated. Now, OK, sometimes that …

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The easiest way, assuming that the source provides the correct output for you, is to take a hash of the completed file. If the hashes match, you're good to go. In this specific example, I know Microsoft publishes the MD5 or SHA-1 hash of their major…

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