ANCIENT LANDS: Testing CD-ROM Drive for File Access
  
PSS ID Number: Q131359
Article last modified on 12-15-1995
 
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The information in this article applies to:
 
 - Microsoft Ancient Lands for Windows, version 1.0
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SUMMARY
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Because of physical read limitations of some CD-ROM drives, the
Microsoft Ancient Lands CD-ROM disc may deny access to some files and
directories. 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 three directories,
listed below, from the Ancient Lands CD-ROM:
 
DIRECTORIES          LOCATION ON DISK
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XFILES\SYSTEM          563-566 MB
XFILES\MSSTP           560-563 MB
MOVIES                 404-559 MB
 
To test for specific drive-capacity limitations, try to access the
following files:
 
FILES                LOCATION ON DISK
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MOVIES\PAPYRUS.AVI     540 MB
MOVIES\NILEMUD.AVI     524 MB
MOVIES\JASON.AVI       506 MB
 
The Ancient Lands CD-ROM contains 566 MB of data. The final file on
the CD-ROM is XFILES\SYSTEM\VSHARE.386.
 
Testing Your CD-ROM Drive
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To ensure the integrity of your files that have been 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 can occur with Windows CD-ROM
applications.
 
Attempt to copy one of the following files from the CD-ROM to your hard
disk drive.
 
FILES                LOCATION ON DISK
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MOVIES\PAPYRUS.AVI     540 MB
MOVIES\NILEMUD.AVI     524 MB
MOVIES\JASON.AVI       506 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 player cannot read the disk at the specified location.
 
If the file copies, test the file's integrity by using FC.EXE with the /B
(binary) switch. For example, to compare the vshare.386 file on your CD
with the vshare.386 file on your hard disk drive, type the following at the
MS-DOS command prompt and press ENTER:
 
   fc  /b  d:\xfiles\system\vshare.386  c:\vshare.386
 
If you receive errors, the CD-ROM drive is having problems reading
the CD at that location.
 
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Version           : 1.00
Platform          : WINDOWS
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