Complete Gardening: Testing CD-ROM Drive for File Access
  
PSS ID Number: Q148839
Article last modified on 02-13-1998
 
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The information in this article applies to:
 
 - Microsoft Complete Gardening 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 be
unable to access some files and folders on the Microsoft Complete Gardening
compact disc from your CD-ROM drive. 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 Complete Gardening compact disc:
 
   Folder                          Location On Disk
   ------                          ----------------
 
   Wavs                                481-483 MB
 
To test for specific drive-capacity limitations, try to access the
following files:
 
   Files                            Location On Disk
   -----                            ----------------
 
   Wavs\Wine.wav                       482-483 MB
   Wavs\Muscntrl.wav                   482 MB
   Wavs\Intro.wav                      482 MB
 
The Complete Gardening disc contains 483 MB of data. The final file on
the CD-ROM is \wavs\wine.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 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
   -----                          ----------------
 
   Wavs\Wine.wav                       482-483 MB
   Wavs\Muscntrl.wav                   482 MB
   Wavs\Intro.wav                      482 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 drive 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 Wine.wav file on your compact
disc to the version of Wine.wav file you copied to your hard drive, type
the following at the MS-DOS command prompt and press ENTER,
 
   fc /b d:\wavs\wine.wav c:\wine.wav
 
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.
 
For additional information, please see the following article(s) in the
Microsoft Knowledge Base:
 
   ARTICLE-ID: Q148351
   TITLE     : Multimedia: Some CD-ROM Drives Can't Properly Read Disc
 
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