Encarta 1998 Deluxe: Testing CD-ROM for File Access (Disc 2)
  
PSS ID Number: Q176471
Article last modified on 11-18-1997
 

 
WINDOWS
 

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The information in this article applies to:
 
 - Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia for Windows
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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 disc 2 of the
Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia Deluxe edition 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 disc 2:
 
   Folder                          Location On Disc
   ------                          ----------------
 
   Encyc98\Mm\Qtm\T666000a.qtm          649 MB
 
To test for specific drive-capacity limitations, try to access the
following files:
 
   Files                           Location On Disc
   -----                           ----------------
 
   Encyc98\Mm\Qtm\T666000a.qtm          649 MB
   Encyc98\Vtour2.m20                   635 MB
   Encyc98\Sidebars.m20                 626 MB
   Encyc98\Picon.m20                    479 MB
 
Disc 2 of the Encarta 1998 Deluxe edition contains 649 MB of data. The
final file on the CD-ROM is Encyc98\Mm\Qtm\T666000a.qtm.
 
Testing Your CD-ROM Drive
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To test 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 one of the following files to the hard disk drive:
 
   Files                          Location On Disc
   -----                          ----------------
 
   Encyc98\Mm\Qtm\T666000a.qtm         649 MB
   Encyc98\Vtour2.m20                  635 MB
   Encyc98\Sidebars.m20                626 MB
   Encyc98\Picon.m20                   479 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 player 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 T666000a.qtm file on
your CD-ROM to the version of the T666000a.qtm file you copied to your
hard drive, type the following at the MS-DOS command prompt, and then
press ENTER
 
   fc /b d:\Encyc98\Mm\Qtm\T666000a.qtm c:\T666000a.qtm
 
where D is the letter of your CD-ROM drive, and C is the letter of your
hard disk drive.
 
If you receive errors, the CD-ROM drive is having problems reading the
compact disc at that location.
 
Additional query words: multi media multimedia multi-media mmtitles cd rom
cd-rom
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Keywords          : kbenv kbhw kbmm kbsetup
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbprb kbtshoot
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