DANGEROUS CREATURES: Testing CD-ROM Drive for File Access
  
PSS ID Number: Q131410
Article last modified on 12-15-1995
 
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The information in this article applies to:
 
 - Microsoft Dangerous Creatures for Windows, version 1.0
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SUMMARY
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Because of physical read limitations of some CD-ROM drives, you may not be
able to access some files and directories on the Dangerous Creatures CD-
ROM. This article lists some of those files and directories and explains
how 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 Dangerous Creatures CD-ROM:
 
DIRECTORIES                          LOCATION ON DISC
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\mmcat                                  605-606 MB
\scrnsave                               604-605 MB
\vfw\ppzz                               507-583 MB
 
To test for specific drive-capacity limitations, try to access the
files listed below:
 
FILES                          LOCATION ON DISC
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\vfw\ppzz\wolf09tv.avi              581 MB
\vfw\ppzz\tran06tv.avi              562 MB
\vfw\ppzz\snap07tv.avi              541 MB
\vfw\ppzz\porc06tv.avi              519 MB
\vfw\aaoo\meet00tv.avi              500 MB
 
The Dangerous Creatures CD-ROM contains 606 MB of data. The final file
on the CD-ROM is \mmcat\ver.dll.
 
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 may occur while running a CD-
ROM application with Windows.
 
Try to copy one of the following files to your hard disk drive. For more
information about how to perform this task in Windows, see your Windows
printed documentation or online Help.
 
FILES                          LOCATION ON DISC
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\vfw\ppzz\wolf09tv.avi              581 MB
\vfw\ppzz\tran06tv.avi              562 MB
\vfw\ppzz\snap07tv.avi              541 MB
\vfw\ppzz\porc06tv.avi              519 MB
\vfw\aaoo\meet00tv.avi              500 MB
 
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 Ver.dll file on your CD-ROM
with the Ver.dll file on your hard disk drive, type the following at the MS-
DOS command prompt and press ENTER
 
   fc  /b  d:\mmcat\ver.dll c:\ver.dll
 
where your CD-ROM drive is drive D, and your hard disk drive is drive C.
 
If you receive errors, the CD-ROM drive is having problems reading the
CD at that location.
 
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KBSubcategory: multi media multimedia multi-media
 
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Keywords          : media multi multi-media multimedia 
Version           : 1.00
Platform          : WINDOWS
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