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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1632447" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>Checksumming?  Why?  A checksum is created on a copy of a file that is known to be good and you run a checksum against another copy (say, if you downloaded it or received via email) to make sure it didn't get corrupted along the way.  You don't run that on an OS installation unless you are comparing it to a clone of it.  Since you deleted some files, there is absolutely no chance you would get a successful checksum against whatever you are comparing this to, unless you cloned it after deleting those files.  And even if you did... this still begs the question of why you are even running a checksum.  What exactly do you hope to accomplish by doing so?</p></blockquote><p></p>