Re: what is checksum
seeing the date on your post, its proberly no longer relevent, but anyway, a
checksum is a mathmatical sum that checks the contents of the file.
You have the header checksum, which is the checksum that is created based on
calculations on the file (exactly of what on the file i dont know, but
proberly related to the file size) and the result is placed in the file
header (the beginning of the file), then you get the computed checksum which
is where the computer reading the file does the same sum as before, only
checks the value against that of the file header, if the two match, the file
intregrity is ok, if not, then the file is corrupt, as in this case.
as for what you can do, all you can do is get a new disk im afraid- unless
cleaning the disk will help?
"tonyt68" wrote in message
news:A36D9A32-92F7-4876-AC25-2E767FCE0843@microsoft.com...
>i tried to install windows xp home edition and when it tried to start
>windows
> it gave me an error message of bad image checksum the image ole32.dll is
> possibly corrupt the header checksum does not match this computed
> checksum.
> does anyone know what to do
date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:50:37 +0100
author: Steven Clough
