Microsoft KB Archive/141562

Explorapedia People: Testing CD-ROM for File Access

PSS ID Number: Q141562 Article last modified on 04-16-1998

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Because of physical read limitations of some CD-ROM drives, the Microsoft Explorapedia World of People CD-ROM may deny access to some files and folders. This article lists those files and supplies a method to test your CD-ROM drive.

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The CD-ROM drive may have difficulty reading the final three folders, listed below, from the Explorapedia World of People CD-ROM:

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

Files Location On Disk —– —————-

.cnf 631 MB 180963a.avi 620 MB 108758a.avi 599 MB 102506a.avi 579 MB

The Explorapedia World of People CD-ROM contains 632 MB of data. The final file on the CD-ROM is .cnf.

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 the following file to the hard disk drive:

Files Location On Disk —– —————-

.cnf 631 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 drive 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 Win.cnf file on your compact disc to the version of Win.cnf file you copied to your hard drive, type the following at the MS-DOS command prompt and press ENTER,

fc /b d:.cnf c:.cnf

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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