Microsoft KB Archive/162588

Deadly Tide: Testing CD-ROM Drive for File Access (Disk 2)

PSS ID Number: Q162588 Article last modified on 06-01-1999

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Because of the physical read limitations of some CD-ROM drives, you may be unable to access some of the files and folders on the Microsoft Deadly Tide compact disc. This article lists those files and supplies a method to test your CD-ROM drive.

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

Disk 2 of Microsoft Deadly Tide contains 599 MB of data. The final file on Disk 2 is Setup.hlp.

Testing Your CD-ROM Drive
To ensure the integrity of the 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 while running a CD-ROM application with Windows.

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

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

If the following error message appears,

CDR101: Not Ready

the CD-ROM drive cannot read the compact disc 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 Level08.l96 file on your compact disc to the version of Level08.l96 file you copied to your hard drive, type the following at the MS-DOS command prompt and press ENTER,

fc /b d:08.l96 c:08.l96

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 compact disc at that location.

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