Microsoft KB Archive/162187

Encarta 1997 Deluxe: Testing CD-ROM for File Access (Disc 1)

PSS ID Number: Q162187 Article last modified on 05-05-1999

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

NOTE: This article covers disc 1. For information about disc 2, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q162188 Encarta 1997 Deluxe: Testing CD-ROM for File Access (Disc 2)

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The CD-ROM drive may have difficulty reading the final folder, listed below, from disc 1 of the Encarta Encyclopedia Deluxe edition:

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

The Encarta Encyclopedia compact disc contains 644 MB of data. The final file on the CD-ROM is .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 drive.

For more information about copying files and folders in Windows, see your Windows printed documentation or online Help.

If the following error message appears

CDR101: Not Ready

the CD-ROM player cannot read the 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 Atlas.wav file on your CD-ROM to the version of Atlas.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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