There’s a lot of shady stuff floating around the Internet, so sometimes it’s hard to find a legit copy of certain software. Ideally, you’d use open-source tools — but sometimes there just aren’t any real alternatives. One example is the beast called WinSetupFromUSB, which doesn’t just copy an ISO image to a flash drive, but actually fixes a structural problem related to installing old versions of Windows (especially Windows XP) on modern hardware.
For instance, I ran into a problem while installing Windows XP Home Edition SP3 OEM-Asus Eee PC on my ancient ASUS Eee PC T91. WinSetupFromUSB is capable of creating a modified grub4dos bootloader and adding driver patches that let XP detect SATA drives…
Anyway… these days you can’t easily download WinSetupFromUSB legitimately — the official .com website is down. There are plenty of mirrors out there, but half of them are infected. So what to do?
Go to the Internet Archive 🙂 Here’s the link:
There you can find the checksums for WinSetupFromUSB 1.10.exe (28 MB) from November 7, 2021:
CRC-32 2d838f1e
MD5 3029455e6a2e47be8981ff79be09e8ad
SHA-1 2a424bcfccc501940c5d9eb3093e59f673e3ea33
Now download that version (the last one) from here or from any other mirror, upload it to VirusTotal, and check the hashes 🙂 Use it safely — and don’t forget to thank Uncle Tangar 😉