Encarta 1997 Deluxe: Testing for Drive Capacity
  
PSS ID Number: Q156495
Article last modified on 11-13-1996
 
1997
 
Windows
 

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The information in this article applies to:
 
- Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia for Windows 1997 Deluxe edition
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SUMMARY
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Because of physical read limitations, some CD-ROM drives cannot access some
files and folders on the Encarta compact disc. This article lists those
files and folders and discusses a method to test your CD-ROM drive.
 
Disc 1
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The following are the final three directories on Disc 1 of the Encarta
1997 Deluxe CD. These are the outermost tracks on the disc.
 
   d:\mmcat\wavs                         642-644 MB
   d:\mmcat\dibs                         640-642 MB
   d:\encyc97\mm\midi                    639-639 MB
 
To test for specific drive capacity limitations, try to access the
following files located in the outermost megabytes of the Encarta disc:
 
   d:\mmcat\dibs\automain.dib            640 MB
   d:\encyc97\mm\avi\t040373a.avi        620 MB
   d:\encyc97\mm\avi\t040370a.avi        605 MB
   d:\encyc97\mm\avi\t027280a.avi        580 MB
 
The Encarta compact disk contains 644 MB of data. The final file on the
disc is d:\mmcat\wavs\wof.wav.
 
Disc 2
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The following are the final three directories on Disc 2 of the Encarta
1997 Deluxe compact disc. These are the outermost tracks on the disc.
 
   d:\encyc97\mm\midi                    639-642 MB
   d:\encyc97\mm                         637-639 MB
   d:\encyc97                              1-637 MB
 
To test for specific drive capacity limitations, try to access the
following files located in the outermost megabytes of the Encarta CD:
 
   d:\encyc97\mm\midi\t040335a.mid       640 MB
   d:\encyc97\picon.m20                  488-632 MB
 
The file picon.m20 is 144 MB. This file should only be tested by copying to
the nul port. Use the following command at the MS-DOS prompt:
 
   copy d:\encyc97\picon.m20 nul (where d is the letter of your CD-ROM
   drive)
 
The Encarta compact disk contains 642 MB of data. The final file on the
CD-ROM is d:\encyc97\mm\midi\T053339a.mid.
 
MORE INFORMATION
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To test drive capacity limitations, you should copy the file to the hard
drive and perform a file comparison as specified in the following article
in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
 
   ARTICLE ID: Q94653
   TITLE     : Using FC.EXE to Verify CD-ROM File System Drivers
 
KBCategory: kbsetup kbenv kbmm kbhw kbtshoot kbprb
KBSubcategory:
 
Additional reference words: 1.0 multi media multimedia multi-media
mmtitles kbmm compact disc disk cd
 
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Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1996.