Microsoft KB Archive/162200

Cinemania 1997: Testing CD-ROM Drive for File Access

PSS ID Number: Q162200 Article last modified on 02-21-1998

1997

WINDOWS

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= SUMMARY =

Because of the physical read limitations of some CD-ROM drives, your drive may deny access to some of the files and folders on the Microsoft Cinemania 1997 edition compact disc. This article lists those files and supplies a method to test your CD-ROM drive.

= MORE INFORMATION =

The CD-ROM drive may have difficulty reading the final folder, listed below, from the Cinemania 1997 edition disc:

Folder Location On Disk —— —————-

Mmcat-606 MB

To test for specific drive-capacity limitations, try to access the following files:

Files Location On Disk —– —————-

Mmcat.wav 605-606 MB Data.c7t 590-592 MB Data20c.exe 580-581 MB

The Cinemania 1997 compact disc contains 606 MB of data. The final file on the CD-ROM is Mmcat.wav

Testing Your CD-ROM Drive
To ensure the integrity of files that you have copied from your CD-ROM drive to your hard disk drive, compare the files using the MS- DOS File Compare program (Fc.exe). This test can be used to determine if the CD-ROM subsystem is functioning properly at the device driver or hardware level(s).

The Fc.exe utility is a useful method for testing problems related to general protection (GP) faults or other critical errors (such as read errors or out of memory messages) that may occur when you use CD-ROM drives with Windows programs.

Attempt to copy one of the following files to the hard disk drive:

Files Location On Disk —– —————-

Mmcat.wav 605-606 MB Data.c7t 590-592 MB Data20c.exe 580-581 MB

For more information about how to perform this task in Windows, see your Windows printed documentation or online Help.

If the error message appears,

CDR101: Not Ready

the CD-ROM player cannot read the disk at the specified location. If the file does copy, test the file’s integrity by using FC.EXE with the /B (binary) switch. For example, to compare the Grdn.wav file on your CD-ROM to the version of Grdn.wav file you copied to your hard drive, type the following at the MS-DOS command prompt and press ENTER,

fc /b d:.wav C:.wav

where D is the letter of your CD-ROM drive, and C is the letter of your hard drive.

If you receive errors, the CD-ROM drive is having problems reading the disc at that location.

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Additional reference words: 1997 multi media multimedia multi-media mmtitles kbmm win95 ====================================================================== Keywords : kbhowto kbfaq Version : 1997 Platform : WINDOWS ============================================================================= Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1998.