Comments on: How to check MD5 File Checksum with Windows

By: narender

narender — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 11:21:39 +0000

Thanks Sunder.. it works for me

By: thierrybo

thierrybo — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 10:43:06 +0000

thanks. So from you comment, we have to use an image file (img iso …), you can’t run a command straight on a CD/DVD as this linux command :md5sum /dev/scd0 ?

By: Sander

Sander — Sun, 27 Sep 2015 19:45:26 +0000

Actually you don’t need to install additional software.
Just use the Windows built-in certutil:

CertUtil -hashfile C:\TEMP\MyDataFile.img MD5

HashAlgorithm choices: MD2 MD4 MD5 SHA1 SHA256 SHA384 SHA512

By: thierrybo

thierrybo — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 10:16:29 +0000

what is the fciv command to calculate a “physical” dvd checksum?

By: Serafino

Serafino — Thu, 28 May 2015 21:36:15 +0000

Five = fciv :P

By: Serafino

Serafino — Thu, 28 May 2015 21:35:16 +0000

@ivo ochoa: not only the five uses xml instead of a plain file, but the checksum is base64 encoded too into the xml… I think it is easy to code something that let you compare the five output with the md5sum one… Probably there is already something on the net that let you do that comparison…

By: ivo ochoa

ivo ochoa — Mon, 06 Apr 2015 17:30:48 +0000

But i have created a md5sum in linux using native utility, transfer files for FTP and when it arrive to windows 7 i need a utility for confirm if ftp was correct, i have tried with FCIV utilitybut it dosen’t work because in linux md5sum generate a plain file with some structure and FCIV use xml so it have different structures. How compare a md5 file generated in linux with another generated in windows for verify a ftp transfer?

By: Thomas Maurer

Thomas Maurer — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 10:41:48 +0000

In reply to Serafino. cool!

By: Serafino

Serafino — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 17:33:11 +0000

Hi,

After using Windows 8.1 for some weeks I thought about a GUI app to verify checksum, a Windows Store (Metro UI) app. So I developed a windows 8.1 app that allows file MD5/SHA hash generation, check and allow to compare two files hashes. The name is MD5 Win Verifier. You can try it at http://apps.microsoft.com/windows/en-us/app/md5-win-verifier/0c116c08-0bd6-42c4-80e3-476a7df6d934 .

I hope it could be usefull :)

By: ben

ben — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 00:19:19 +0000

I disagree with the commenters, agree with the poster. Use FCIV.
Also why download a third party tool that also runs on linux, etc when there are already integrated tools for Linux and most unix?

linux = md5sum
aix = csum
windows = FCIV !!

My FCIV screenshot:
http://geekswing.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/windows_md5sum_sha1_example.jpg

Great post OP