Hash Check failed for your download? Torrents can fix it!

Here's how I went fixing my 3.3GB of Fedora i386/32-bit DVD ISO, downloaded directly(http) from an official mirror, which went kaput. x-( Hash check(SHA1) failed to verify the ISO! Rather than a fresh download, I went fixing the ISO itself.

  1. Download your data(ISO, ZIP, etc.) from any source or mirror. Sometimes it's faster to grab than a torrent download, but you may corrupt your big downloads with frequent pauses or crashes, and the checksum fails to verify!
  2. Download your favorite Bit Torrent client. Here are some recommendations: µTorrent for Windows and KTorrent for KDE.
  3. Search for the exactly same data torrent, and open using the torrent client.
  4. Monitor the location of your torrent downloads directory while you start the download. Stop the torrent as soon as the files are created there.
  5. Now replace the file in the torrent downloads with the one you downloaded earlier. Make sure the name is intact as the torrent client made it. For example, Fedora-9-i386-DVD.iso.bc! is the format for incomplete BitComet torrent downloads.
  6. Now you need to check the data integrity of your torrent. The option is "Check data integrity" in KTorrent, and "Force Re-Check" in uTorrent(µTorrent). It'll take a few seconds to verify your data for corrupt parts and enlist to itself for re-download of them. My check stopped at 99.9% for Fedora-9-i386-DVD.iso.
  7. When the check is finished, proceed with starting the torrent now. In my case, 0.01% was downloaded again, fixing my ISO!
  8. Yay!! Now help others out! And keep seeding. :Smile


In whole, you are able to download stuff faster than torrents(sometimes Wink ) via http/ftp sources, and later fix up any errors that download may have using a torrent client! Good luck!


Special thanks to the Compiz Fusion guy Jigish Gohil, who directed me to the way to fix it up! And to Martin Schlander (aka. “cb400f”) for the guide and KTorrent screenie!

10 Comments

Thanks for the tip.

Thanks man. Thanks for the tip. I just downloaded CentOS DVD and the md5sum didn't matched. So, now I will try your trick, I hope it will work out for me.

Thanks.

Great tip. Very useful.

Great tip. Very useful. Thanks.

dat was good

dat was good Smile

oh hell yes that saves me a

oh hell yes that saves me a hell of a lot of band with. thank you very much

And how m i alaways suppose

And how m i alaways suppose to find the same file in torrents...........?

Easiest way to find the same file(s) as a torrent...

Just google the exact filename of one of your files. If it exists as a torrent, it should show up on google. Most torrent sites list the filenames which get indexed by google.

O Thanx Paji / Tussi Great Ho

Ho Yaar, Aey te mein sochiya hi nahi si. Mein Transformers 2 Download kiti. 99.2% hoye si ke mein stop kerditi. Jey hon mein is tara thoada tareeka azmawa ga te wekhan ga ke poori 100% hundi ke nahi. Satsria Kaal.

Previously I was trying but it wasnt working. I ll give it another try.

Torrents Failed Hash Check

hi,

i just checked my logger on one if the downloads and one in particular has alot of failed hash checks against it.

do i just stop the whole download for that file and find a new one somewhere else.

does it actually mean that the whole file is stuffed?

thanks for your help, its hard work for a newbie

cheers KiwiKev Thumb Up

Maybe the seeded data is

Maybe the seeded data is broken or some network issues. Try another torrent perhaps. Thumb Up

well, well, well...

One of the most useful and clever tips around. Many many thanks! Smile

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