Microsoft KB Archive/162587

Hellbender: Testing CD-ROM Drive for File Access

PSS ID Number: Q162587 Article last modified on 05-17-1999

WINDOWS:1.0

WINDOWS

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The information in this article applies to:

 == Microsoft Hellbender for Windows, version 1.0 == 

= SUMMARY =

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 Hellbender 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 Hellbender compact disc. The final folder is actually the root directory of the disc, located as follows:

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

The Microsoft Hellbender compact disc contains 370 MB of data. The final file on the disc is Smackw32.dll.

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

fc /b d:.hlp c:.hlp

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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