Windows 7 ISO question

[watercooled]

If you've tried it twice and got the same error then it's probably not corrupted. Also, I think FAT (16) and FAT32 are OK to boot from.

[watercooled]

I always verify the hash of an iso before burning it - it takes 10 seconds, which is a lot less time than downloading a second copy. That and the fact that there's no guarantee that just because you downloaded it twice and can extract data from the image it's not corrupt.

What do you use to verify SHA-1 hashes?

[Singh400]

What do you use to verify SHA-1 hashes?

HashTab is a pretty good add-in for Windows. Although I'm a command line junkie so I use FCIV (this does MD5 and SHA-1) and CRC (this does CRC as you'd expect).

I'd recommend using HashTab as it does all of them with a simple UI.

Also, some verification info for both x64 and x86 builds...

Build: 7000 (Beta 1)
Platform: 64-bit
ISO Name: 7000.0.081212-1400_CLIENT_EN-US_ULTIMATE-GB1CULXFRE_EN_DVD.ISO
DVD Label: GB1CULXFRE_EN_DVD
Size: 3.15 GB (3,387,009,024 bytes)
Size on disk: 3.15 GB (3,387,011,072 bytes)
CRC: 0x8E2FAD39
MD5: 773FC9CC60338C612AF716A2A14F177D
SHA-1: E09FDBC1CB3A92CF6CC872040FDAF65553AB62A5

Build: 7000 (Beta 1)
Platform: 32-bit
ISO Name: 7000.0.081212-1400_CLIENT_EN-US_ULTIMATE-GB1CULFRE_EN_DVD.ISO
DVD Label: GB1CULFRE_EN_DVD
Size: 2.43 GB (2,618,793,984 bytes)
Size on disk: 2.43 GB (2,618,793,984 bytes)
CRC: 0xAABA5A48
MD5: F9DCE6EBD0A63930B44D8AE802B63825
SHA-1: 6071184282B2156FF61CDC5260545C078CCA31EE

[Bunjiweb]

Well I installed it on my fairly rubbish laptop (2ghz cely, 30gb hdd, 512mb ram) just to see what its like and although it seems rather nice to use, my laptop just doesn't have the grunt for me to appreciate it or get eh full feature set going... Once I start Internet explorer it runs very slow.... so whats all this talk of it running well on netbooks? I guess this is if they have 1gb of ram?

Anyone else getting annoyed by the "This Copy of Windows is not genuine" rubbish that keeps coming up because Windows 7 is only a beta...

Ben

[shbris]

All the guides I've seen state specifically to use FAT on the USB drive so that's what I used.

http://kmwoley.com/blog/?p=345

FAT32 will probably work, but if it doesn't try ntfs. give it a go and tell use how it goes!!!

(i used ntfs on my install btw and worked like a charm)

[watercooled]

HashTab is a pretty good add-in for Windows. Although I'm a command line junkie so I use FCIV (this does MD5 and SHA-1) and CRC (this does CRC as you'd expect).

I'd recommend using HashTab as it does all of them with a simple UI.

Also, some verification info for both x64 and x86 builds...

Build: 7000 (Beta 1)
Platform: 64-bit
ISO Name: 7000.0.081212-1400_CLIENT_EN-US_ULTIMATE-GB1CULXFRE_EN_DVD.ISO
DVD Label: GB1CULXFRE_EN_DVD
Size: 3.15 GB (3,387,009,024 bytes)
Size on disk: 3.15 GB (3,387,011,072 bytes)
CRC: 0x8E2FAD39
MD5: 773FC9CC60338C612AF716A2A14F177D
SHA-1: E09FDBC1CB3A92CF6CC872040FDAF65553AB62A5

Build: 7000 (Beta 1)
Platform: 32-bit
ISO Name: 7000.0.081212-1400_CLIENT_EN-US_ULTIMATE-GB1CULFRE_EN_DVD.ISO
DVD Label: GB1CULFRE_EN_DVD
Size: 2.43 GB (2,618,793,984 bytes)
Size on disk: 2.43 GB (2,618,793,984 bytes)
CRC: 0xAABA5A48
MD5: F9DCE6EBD0A63930B44D8AE802B63825
SHA-1: 6071184282B2156FF61CDC5260545C078CCA31EE

Thanks, I downladed FCIV and followed the instructions on the webpage - actually quite easy to use, thanks