Microsoft KB Archive/165609

Automap Trip Planner: Testing CD-ROM for File Access

PSS ID Number: Q165609 Article last modified on 04-17-1998

5.00

WINDOWS

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The information in this article applies to:

 == Microsoft Automap Trip Planner for Windows, version 5.0 == 

= SUMMARY =

Because of physical read limitations of some CD-ROM drives, you may be denied access to some of the files and folders on the Microsoft Automap Trip Planner 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 Automap Trip Planner CD-ROM:

Folder Location On Disc —— —————-

Acmsetup-589 MB

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

Files Location On Disc —– —————-

Acmsetup40.dll 586-587 MB Gps.cab 576-578 MB Data.m20 429-576 MB

The Automap Trip Planner compact disc contains 589 MB of data. The final file on the CD-ROM is Acmsetup10.dll.

Testing Your CD-ROM Drive
To test the integrity of files that you have copied from your CD-ROM drive to your hard drive, compare the files using the MS-DOS File Compare program (Fc.exe). You can use this test 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.

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

Files Location On Disc —– —————-

Acmsetup40.dll 586-587 MB Gps.cab 576-578 MB Data.m20 429-576 MB

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 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 mfc40.dll file on your CD-ROM to the version of Mfc40.dll file you copied to your hard drive, type the following at the MS-DOS command prompt and press ENTER:

fc /b d:40.dll c:40.dll

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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