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 
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SUMMARY
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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
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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:
 
+-----------------------------------+
| Folder         | Location On Disk | 
+-----------------------------------+
| Root directory | 183-189 MB       | 
+-----------------------------------+
 
To test for specific drive-capacity limitations, try to access the following
files:
 
+--------------------------------------------+
| Files                   | Location On Disk | 
+--------------------------------------------+
| Hellbend.hlp            | 361-370 MB       | 
+--------------------------------------------+
| System\Story\Youdie.smk | 350-359 MB       | 
+--------------------------------------------+
 
The Microsoft Hellbender compact disc contains 370 MB of data. The final file on
the disc is Smackw32.dll.
 
Testing Your CD-ROM Drive
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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:
 
+--------------------------------------------+
| Files                   | Location On Disk | 
+--------------------------------------------+
| Hellbend.hlp            | 361-370 MB       | 
+--------------------------------------------+
| System\Story\Youdie.smk | 350-359 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 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:\Hellbend.hlp c:\Hellbend.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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Keywords          : kbsetup kbfaq
Version           : WINDOWS:1.0
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbinfo
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