Julia Child: Testing CD-ROM for File Access
  
PSS ID Number: Q141258
Article last modified on 02-11-1998
 
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The information in this article applies to:
 
 - Microsoft Julia Child: Home Cooking with Master Chefs
   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 Julia Child CD-ROM may deny access to some files and folders.
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 Julia Child CD-ROM:
 
   Folders                          Location On Disk
   -------                          ----------------
 
   Video                              110-589 MB
 
To test for specific drive-capacity limitations, try to access the
following files:
 
   Files                            Location On Disk
   -----                            ----------------
 
   Video\Tiny.avi                      588 MB
   Video\T321252a.avi                  579 MB
   Video\T321250a.avi                  559 MB
 
The Julia Child CD-ROM contains 589 MB of data. The final file on the
CD-ROM is \Video\Tiny.avi.
 
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 may occur when you use CD-ROM
drives with Windows programs.
 
Attempt to copy the following files to the hard disk drive:
 
   Files                          Location On Disk
   -----                          ----------------
 
   Video\Tiny.avi                     588 MB
   Video\T321252a.avi                 579 MB
   Video\T321250a.avi                 559 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 disk 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 Tiny.avi file on your CD-
ROM to the version of Tiny.avi file you copied to your hard drive, type
the following at the MS-DOS command prompt and press ENTER,
 
   fc  /b  d:\video\Tiny.avi c:\Tiny.avi
 
where D is the letter of your CD-ROM drive, and C is the letter of your
hard drive.
 
If you receive errors, the CD-ROM drive is having problems reading the
disc at that location.
 
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