Flight Sim: Testing Scenery Expansion CD-ROM for File Access
  
PSS ID Number: Q172017
Article last modified on 05-27-1999
 
WINDOWS:1.0
 
WINDOWS
 

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The information in this article applies to:
 
 - Microsoft Expansion Pack for Microsoft Flight Simulator for Windows 95, version 1.0 
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SUMMARY
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Because of physical read limitations of some CD-ROM drives, your CD-ROM drive
may deny access to some of the files and folders on the Microsoft Expansion Pack
for Microsoft Flight Simulator for Windows 95, version 1.0 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 Microsoft Expansion:
 
   Folder                             Location On Disc
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   Scenery\Scal\Texture\Files893         150-151 MB
 
To test for specific drive-capacity limitations, try to access the following
files:
 
   Files                                          Location On Disc
   -----                                          ----------------
   Scenery\Scal\Texture\Files893\F893015.txr         150-151 MB
   Scenery\Scal\Texture\Files893\F853046.txr         140-141 MB
   Scenery\Scal\Texture\Files832\F832004.txr         130-131 MB
   Scenery\Scal\Texture\Files783\F783039.txr         100-101 MB
 
The Microsoft Expansion compact disc contains 151 MB of data. The final file on
the compact disc is Scenery\Scal\Texture\Files893\F893015.txr.
 
Testing Your CD-ROM Drive
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To ensure the integrity of files that you have copied from the compact disc to
your hard disc, 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 one of the following files to the hard disc:
 
   Files                                          Location On Disc
   -----                                          ----------------
   Scenery\Scal\Texture\Files893\F893015.txr         150-151 MB
   Scenery\Scal\Texture\Files893\F853046.txr         140-141 MB
   Scenery\Scal\Texture\Files832\F832004.txr         130-131 MB
   Scenery\Scal\Texture\Files783\F783039.txr         100-101 MB
 
NOTE: For more information about how to perform this task in Windows, see your
Windows printed documentation or online Help.
 
If you receive the following error message,
 
   CDR101: Not Ready
 
the CD-ROM drive cannot read the 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 version of F893015.txr located on your compact disc to
the version of F893015.txr that you copied to your hard disc, type the following
at the MS-DOS command prompt and then press ENTER:
 
   fc /b d:\scenery\scal\texture\files893\f893015.txr c:\f893015.txr
 
where D is the letter of your CD-ROM drive, and C is the letter of your hard
disc.
 
If you receive error messages, the CD-ROM drive is having problems reading the
compact disc at that location.
 
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Keywords          : kbhw kbsetup kbtshoot 
Version           : WINDOWS:1.0
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbinfo
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