500 Nations: Testing CD-ROM Drive For File Access
  
PSS ID Number: Q151317
Article last modified on 02-13-1998
 
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The information in this article applies to:
 
 - Microsoft 500 Nations for Windows, version 1.0
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SUMMARY
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Because of physical read limitations of some CD-ROM drives, your CD-ROM
drive may deny access to some files and folders on the Microsoft 500
Nations compact disc. This article lists those files and supplies a method
to test your CD-ROM drive.
 
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The CD-ROM drive may have difficulty reading the final folder, listed
below, from the 500 Nations compact disc:
 
   Folders                             Location On Disk
   -------                             ----------------
 
   Nations\_setup\wing                     620 MB
 
To test for specific drive-capacity limitations, try to access the
following files:
 
   Files                               Location On Disk
   -----                               ----------------
 
   Nations\_setup\wing\wingpal.wnd         620 MB
   Nations\if\paaa01ba.avi                 603 MB
   Nations\gallery\640x480\ggall007.dib    580 MB
 
The 500 Nations CD-ROM contains 620 MB of data. The final file on the
CD-ROM is Nations\_setup\wing\wingpal.wnd.
 
Testing Your CD-ROM Drive
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To ensure the integrity of files that you have copied from your compact
disc 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
   -----                             ----------------
 
   Nations\_setup\wing\wingpal.wnd         620 MB
   Nations\if\paaa01ba.avi                 603 MB
   Nations\gallery\640x480\ggall007.dib    580 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 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 Wingpal.wnd file on
your compact disc to the version of Wingpal.wnd file you copied to your
hard drive, type the following at the MS-DOS command prompt and press
ENTER:
 
   fc  /b d:\Nations\_setup\wing\wingpal.wnd c:\wingpal.wnd
 
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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