Re: Software to check file integrity ?


"Neill Massello" <neillmassello@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> zjustice <zeroREMOVEnews2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Is there a utility if you have concern over a HD to run against it to
>> check
>> all the files present to see if they're ok and readable ?
>
> Readable? Yes. OK? Not really. A utility can only read what's there; it
> can't know what's supposed to be there. The only way to discover defects
> in the content of a file, as opposed to its structure, is to compare it
> to another copy known to be correct. an
Right!

For the OP, if the file is readable, it's high probablility that the file
contents have not changed or become corrupted. I.e, you imagine that
someone could create a utility that would change files such that chkdsk
would see them as OK, but the contents were either changed or were
corrupted - but the chances of that happening normally would be quite small.
>


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