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Are you saying it fails to make a checksum at all? What program? Try this one: https://github.com/gurnec/HashCheck/releases/tag/v2.4.0
I am on using hashcheck lol. It works. But when checking, it comes out as unreadable.
What? The hash is just a number in a text file. Open the md5 with notepad?
You aren't very clear... Are you saying it creates the hash, but then verifying fails? I don't know what you mean by unreadable
What does that mean?
I can create the .md5 file but upon opening it to test, it comes up as "unreadable" status.
Why are you using third party tools for this?
An "unreadable" result sounds like a failure from HashCheck - What does your OS Native tools give you?