md5 verification

I downloaded and installed FileCheckMD5 (kudos to Brandon Staggs) and then ran a file check against the downloaded iso file for Vista x64 Beta 2. The file properties window states the correct size: 4,309,368,832 bytes. The MD5 result I receive from the test is:
8ec33bb91f4b8a364b349323cf5dcbda
VistaBase's site (Great site! Check them out!) states it should be:
E43502D0A15EADD551119D5639859E04
I realize these are different. I just want to be sure that I have a corrupt iso before I go through the motions of re-downloading 4G worth of data.
Can anyone who actually knows what they are doing, unlike myself, verify the MD5 as reported by VistaBase?

There's a link on the same page Mark - http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?getstarted
And a big thanks to Andre of course who posted them in the first place :o) And thanks for the compliments!
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I downloaded and installed FileCheckMD5 (kudos to Brandon Staggs) and then ran a file check against the downloaded iso file for Vista x64 Beta 2. The file properties window states the correct size: 4,309,368,832 bytes. The MD5 result I receive from the test is:
8ec33bb91f4b8a364b349323cf5dcbda
VistaBase's site (Great site! Check them out!) states it should be:
E43502D0A15EADD551119D5639859E04
I realize these are different. I just want to be sure that I have a corrupt iso before I go through the motions of re-downloading 4G worth of data.
Can anyone who actually knows what they are doing, unlike myself, verify the MD5 as reported by VistaBase?

I should have looked more thoroughly! And Andre has been nicely answering this same question in this forum about a gazillion times too as I discovered after actually searching instead of lazily posting! So far both of you have helped me immensly.
"Zack Whittaker" wrote:

There's a link on the same page Mark - http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?getstarted
And a big thanks to Andre of course who posted them in the first place :o) And thanks for the compliments!
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!

I tried the checker and it tells me that my Vista and Office 2007 are both fine which is strange since Vista is only 2,097 mb and Office failed to install. :(

"Mark D. VandenBerg" wrote:

I should have looked more thoroughly! And Andre has been nicely answering this same question in this forum about a gazillion times too as I discovered after actually searching instead of lazily posting! So far both of you have helped me immensly.
"Zack Whittaker" wrote:
There's a link on the same page Mark - http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?getstarted
And a big thanks to Andre of course who posted them in the first place :o) And thanks for the compliments!
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!

I have the same checksum as well, did you have to redownload it?
"Ian M. Walker" wrote:

I tried the checker and it tells me that my Vista and Office 2007 are both fine which is strange since Vista is only 2,097 mb and Office failed to install. :(

"Mark D. VandenBerg" wrote:
I should have looked more thoroughly! And Andre has been nicely answering this same question in this forum about a gazillion times too as I discovered after actually searching instead of lazily posting! So far both of you have helped me immensly.
"Zack Whittaker" wrote:
There's a link on the same page Mark - http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?getstarted
And a big thanks to Andre of course who posted them in the first place :o) And thanks for the compliments!
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!

I re-downloaded the file. Exactly the same size, exactly the same, incorrect, checksum.
"Shae" wrote:

I have the same checksum as well, did you have to redownload it?
"Ian M. Walker" wrote:
I tried the checker and it tells me that my Vista and Office 2007 are both fine which is strange since Vista is only 2,097 mb and Office failed to install. :(

"Mark D. VandenBerg" wrote:
I should have looked more thoroughly! And Andre has been nicely answering this same question in this forum about a gazillion times too as I discovered after actually searching instead of lazily posting! So far both of you have helped me immensly.
"Zack Whittaker" wrote:
There's a link on the same page Mark - http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?getstarted
And a big thanks to Andre of course who posted them in the first place :o) And thanks for the compliments!
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!

I have downloaded the 64 bit version three times now, and I have the same wrong MD5 result as you are getting, the chances of that are very low... I can only assume that maybe the file on the server is somehow corrupt
"Mark D. VandenBerg" wrote:

I re-downloaded the file. Exactly the same size, exactly the same, incorrect, checksum.
"Shae" wrote:
I have the same checksum as well, did you have to redownload it?
"Ian M. Walker" wrote:
I tried the checker and it tells me that my Vista and Office 2007 are both fine which is strange since Vista is only 2,097 mb and Office failed to install. :(

"Mark D. VandenBerg" wrote:
I should have looked more thoroughly! And Andre has been nicely answering this same question in this forum about a gazillion times too as I discovered after actually searching instead of lazily posting! So far both of you have helped me immensly.
"Zack Whittaker" wrote:
There's a link on the same page Mark - http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?getstarted
And a big thanks to Andre of course who posted them in the first place :o) And thanks for the compliments!
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!

"Heath Abelson" wrote:

I have downloaded the 64 bit version three times now, and I have the same wrong MD5 result as you are getting, the chances of that are very low... I can only assume that maybe the file on the server is somehow corrupt
"Mark D. VandenBerg" wrote:
I re-downloaded the file. Exactly the same size, exactly the same, incorrect, checksum.
"Shae" wrote:
I have the same checksum as well, did you have to redownload it?
"Ian M. Walker" wrote:
I tried the checker and it tells me that my Vista and Office 2007 are both fine which is strange since Vista is only 2,097 mb and Office failed to install. :(

"Mark D. VandenBerg" wrote:
I should have looked more thoroughly! And Andre has been nicely answering this same question in this forum about a gazillion times too as I discovered after actually searching instead of lazily posting! So far both of you have helped me immensly.
"Zack Whittaker" wrote:
There's a link on the same page Mark - http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?getstarted
And a big thanks to Andre of course who posted them in the first place :o) And thanks for the compliments!
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!

Sorry about the first post.
I used the recommended download manager for the 32 bit version. Everything looks okay except the posted/correct checksum. I used two MD5 programs and neither displayed the correct checksum.
I am downloading it again. However, I am wondering if there is another reason the checksum would be different as Heath pointed out.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
"Mo" wrote:

"Heath Abelson" wrote:
I have downloaded the 64 bit version three times now, and I have the same wrong MD5 result as you are getting, the chances of that are very low... I can only assume that maybe the file on the server is somehow corrupt
"Mark D. VandenBerg" wrote:
I re-downloaded the file. Exactly the same size, exactly the same, incorrect, checksum.
"Shae" wrote:
I have the same checksum as well, did you have to redownload it?
"Ian M. Walker" wrote:
I tried the checker and it tells me that my Vista and Office 2007 are both fine which is strange since Vista is only 2,097 mb and Office failed to install. :(

"Mark D. VandenBerg" wrote:
I should have looked more thoroughly! And Andre has been nicely answering this same question in this forum about a gazillion times too as I discovered after actually searching instead of lazily posting! So far both of you have helped me immensly.
"Zack Whittaker" wrote:
There's a link on the same page Mark - http://www.vistabase.co.uk/welcome.php?getstarted
And a big thanks to Andre of course who posted them in the first place :o) And thanks for the compliments!
-- Zack Whittaker » ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk » MSBlog on ResDev: www.msblog.org » Vista Knowledge Base: www.vistabase.co.uk » This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared that up!

I used a different checksum app and it worked. Here's the link: http://vista.visualwin.com/check-iso/
I always extract zipped files into my C:\Extract folder and I had so many MD5 apps I named this folder "Command Line".
In any case, both of my downloads checked out so you may want to go grab this little app and run it.
A tip: So I didn't have to type the entire name, I just copied the file name from the properties tab.
C:\EXTRACT\Command line>md5.exe vista_5384.4.060518-1455_winmain_beta2_x86fre_cl ient-LB2CFRE_EN_DVD.iso 0E733AB1A8E8FF9A8684FD3639332773 vista_5384.4.060518-1455_winmain_beta2_x86fre_ client-LB2CFRE_EN_DVD.iso
"Mark D. VandenBerg" wrote:

I downloaded and installed FileCheckMD5 (kudos to Brandon Staggs) and then ran a file check against the downloaded iso file for Vista x64 Beta 2. The file properties window states the correct size: 4,309,368,832 bytes. The MD5 result I receive from the test is:
8ec33bb91f4b8a364b349323cf5dcbda
VistaBase's site (Great site! Check them out!) states it should be:
E43502D0A15EADD551119D5639859E04
I realize these are different. I just want to be sure that I have a corrupt iso before I go through the motions of re-downloading 4G worth of data.
Can anyone who actually knows what they are doing, unlike myself, verify the MD5 as reported by VistaBase?