MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS: Testing CD-ROM Drive for File Access
  
PSS ID Number: Q131412
Article last modified on 12-15-1995
 
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The information in this article applies to:
 
 - Microsoft Musical Instruments 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 Musical Instruments 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 directories,
listed below, from the Musical Instruments CD-ROM:
 
DIRECTORIES                          LOCATION ON DISC
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\woodwind\zurn                       465-466 MB
\woodwind\zumm                       463-465 MB
 
To test for specific drive-capacity limitations, try to access the
file listed below:
 
FILES                          LOCATION ON DISC
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\woodwind\zurn\zurnword.wav       465 MB
 
The Musical Instruments CD-ROM contains 466 MB of data. The final file
on the CD-ROM is \woodwind\zurn\zurnword.wav
 
Testing Your CD-ROM Drive
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To ensure 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 can occur with Windows CD-ROM
applications.
 
Try to copy the following file to your hard disk drive. For more
information about how to perform this task in Windows, see your Windows
printed documentation or online Help.
 
FILE                          LOCATION ON DISC
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\woodwind\zurn\zurnword.wav       465 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 Zurnword.wav file on your CD
with the Zurnword.wav file on your hard disk drive type the following at
the MS-DOS command prompt and press ENTER
 
   fc  /b  d:\woodwind\zurn\zurnword.wav c:\zurnword.wav
 
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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Platform          : WINDOWS
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