How to obtain authentic Microsoft XP ISOs

[Xtremetic]

It is easy to obtain ISOs of WIndows XP from bitorrent or from numerous blogspot sites, but this is a risky thing to do because maliceous code could be inserted into the ISOs to compromise your security.  Other legitimate sources are no longer available because XP ISOs are no longer made available to MSDN/Technet subscribers and the Digital Rivers download site no longer exists as far as I can tell, although there are links available for Windows 7 ISOs from Digital River.  However, if you can obtain the files names of the original XP downloads from MSDN/Technet along with their SHA1 or MD5 checksum values you should be able to find them archived elsewhere with reasonable certainty that they are untouched ISOs originaly from an authorised source.  I post here a list of file names and hash values for XP ISOs that probably originated from MSDN/Technet and you can Google the file names to find downloads for them.  Of course, there is no guarentee that either the file names or hash values provided here are authentic.

 

Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3 (x86) Retail CD (English)
Size: 589.14 MB
MD5: F424A52153E6E5ED4C0D44235CF545D5
SHA1: 1c735b38931bf57fb14ebd9a9ba253ceb443d459
ISO/CRC: FFFFFFFF

 

Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3 (x86) VL CD (English)
Size: 589.14 MB
MD5: 5BF476E2FC445B8D06B3C2A6091FE3AA
SHA1: 66ac289ae27724c5ae17139227cbe78c01eefe40
ISO/CRC: FFFFFFFF

 

Windows XP Professional N with Service Pack 3 (x86) VL CD (English)
Size: 597.83 MB
SHA1: a8143d52f60e4acc73d5f267f05ad833f034d453
ISO/CRC: FFFFFFFF

 

Windows XP Home with Service Pack 3 (x86) Retail CD (English)
Size: 564.72 MB
SHA1: 5a6b959ad24d15dc7ebd85e501b83d105d1b37c6
ISO/CRC: FFFFFFFF

 

Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3 (x86) Volume CD (French)
Size: 592.14 MB
SHA1: 187fa9ee4e682fce20be6bc5bc092efcb6aafd11
ISO/CRC: FFFFFFFF

 

Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3 (x86) Volume CD (German)
Size: 591.06 MB
SHA1: 55ad061ba1054da5ec800924b03337674e5a1262
ISO/CRC: FFFFFFFF

 

Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3 (x86) VOL CD (Italian)
Size: 586.23 MB
SHA1: a04d68b0fc8b97eec1da9277e5d8126f318596dc
ISO/CRC: FFFFFFFF

 

Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3 (x86) Volume CD (Spanish)
Size: 590.51 MB
SHA1: a47603256d7645a2f2788466153ffcd058f77c56
ISO/CRC: FFFFFFFF

 

Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3 (x86) Volume CD (Portuguese - Brazil)
Size: 587.23 MB
MD5: 178fbe2d83d694ec5a53cc9cfe89ab6f
SHA1: 015f13f28655957c93fe20d287ea62a50be64a95
ISO/CRC: FFFFFFFF

 

Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3 (x86) Retail CD (Simplified Chinese)
Size: 601.04 MB
SHA1: 69dbf131116760932dcf132ade111d6b45778098
ISO/CRC: FFFFFFFF

 

Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3 (x86) VL CD (Simplified Chinese)
Size: 601.04 MB
MD5: e74d72f3d90456003e9e02ba0fb7da61
SHA1: d142469d0c3953d8e4a6a490a58052ef52837f0f
ISO/CRC: FFFFFFFF

 

Windows XP Home with Service Pack 3 (x86) Retail CD (Simplified Chinese)
Size: 583.45 MB
SHA1: f15ef466b1d87b1ffdadc246b8ce82287bd15ed5
ISO/CRC: FFFFFFFF

 

Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3 (x86) Retail DVD (Japanese)
Size: 630.21 MB
SHA1: 3125aaed8f40a5d8a10dbb959a03e39acc0d9fcb
ISO/CRC: FFFFFFFF

 

Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3 (x86) VOL DVD (Japanese)
Size: 630.21 MB
SHA1: 8719219c7a77756a904f4bb9fd2f32781f091c22
ISO/CRC: FFFFFFFF

 

Windows XP Home with Service Pack 3 (x86) Retail CD (Japanese)
Size: 608.73 MB
SHA1: a907477482a45f0c7617e384b1b8a69802bc815c
ISO/CRC: FFFFFFFF

 

Windows XP Home K with Service Pack 3 (x86) Retail CD (Korean)
Size: 586.84 MB
SHA1: e81c5e6e7aa34e32091538462d963488dc08ef66
ISO/CRC: FFFFFFFF

 

Windows XP Home KN with Service Pack 3 (x86) Retail CD (Korean)
Size: 572.42 MB
SHA1: 3c88bb786aefff3aabb90c02aa7d569c6aa459c2
ISO/CRC: FFFFFFFF

 

Windows XP Professional K with Service Pack 3 (x86) Volume CD (Korean)
Size: 634.25 MB
SHA1: aa00d0e694e0d885d654241d74e9654373f222eb
ISO/CRC: FFFFFFFF

 

Windows XP Professional K with Service Pack 3 (x86) Retail CD (Korean)
Size: 634.25 MB
SHA1:cad31b63f9ec47aeaf6e3bded9d36425ddb3183a
ISO/CRC:FFFFFFFF

 

Windows XP Professional KN with Service Pack 3 (x86) Retail CD (Korean)
Size: 615.45 MB
SHA1: 6fd792c71bfa085273472a52aeee1757007c74fa
ISO/CRC: FFFFFFFF

 

Windows XP Professional KN with Service Pack 3 (x86) VOL CD (Korean)
Size: 615.45 MB
SHA1: 723f0206cf09e5c8693de5eeaee7da849e734bc8
ISO/CRC: FFFFFFFF

Edited November 22, 2014 by Xtremetic

[dziubek]

For the Polish version also have a list of checksums?

[dencorso]

Try looking at TackTech...