HOW TO GENERATE AND VERIFY MD5 HASH IN WINDOWS & LINUX

HOW TO CHECK THE INTEGRITY OF THE DOWNLOADED IMAGE IN WINDOWS & LINUX

LINUX:
GENERATE THE MD5 HASH BY USING FOLLOWING COMMAND
MD5SUM FILE.ISO > HASH.MD5

CHECK THE MD5 HASH WITH FOLLOWING COMMAND (PLACE VENDOR PROVIDED HASH TO THE SAME LOCATION)
MD5SUM -C HASH.MD5

OR

OPEN BOTH VENDOR PROVIDE AND SELF GENERATED FILES AND MACH THE STRING. IF BOTH THE STRINGS ARE SAME THEN FILE INTEGRITY IS INTACT.

WINDOWS:
DOWNLOAD THE FILE CHECKSUM INTEGRITY VERIFIER (FCIV) UTILITY FROM FOLLOWING LINK
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/841290

EXTRACT THE UTILITY, OPEN CMD/COMMAND PROMPT AND MOVE TO THE EXTRACTED UTILITY PATH.

RUN FOLLLOWING COMMAND TO COMPUTE THE HASH VALUE OF THE DOWNLOADED IMAGE/FILE.
FCIV -md5 path\filename.iso

OPEN THE VENDOR PROVIDED HASH FILE AND ABOVE COMPUTED HASH FILE AND MATCH THE STRING.

IF STRING MATCHES THEN INTEGRITY IS INTACT.