Goosebumps: Testing CD-ROM for File Access (Disc 1) (160925)


The information in this article applies to:

  • DreamWorks Interactive, Scholastic's Goosebumps Series: Escape from Horrorland 1.0
This article was previously published under Q160925

SUMMARY

Because of physical read limitations on some CD-ROM drives, you may not be able to access some files and folders on the Goosebumps compact disk. This article lists those files and supplies a method to test your CD-ROM drive.

MORE INFORMATION

The CD-ROM drive may have difficulty reading the final three folders, listed below, from the Goosebumps compact disc: 
    Folders                        Location On Disc
    -------                        ----------------
    Drvsnec                            625 MB
    Msddraw                            628 MB
    Ess                                629 MB
To test for specific drive-capacity limitations, try to access the files listed below for disk 1: 
    Files                          Location On Disc
    -----                          ----------------
    Data\Diskid.1                      612 MB
    Ess\Essmpu.drv                     629 MB
The Goosebumps compact disk contains 635 MB of data on Disc 1. Disc 2 contains 621 MB of data.

Testing Your CD-ROM Drive

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). You can use this test 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.

Make a directory on your hard disk drive and copy one of the files below to that directory. Attempt to copy one of the following files to a directory on your hard disk drive: 
    Files                          Location On Disc
    -----                          ----------------
    Data\Diskid.1                      612 MB
    Autorun.inf                        630 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 Setup.exe file on your compact disc to the version of Autorun.ing file you copied to your hard drive, type the following at the MS-DOS command prompt and press ENTER,

fc /b d:\Autorun.inf c:\Autorun.inf

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.
Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:11/8/2001
Keywords:KB160925
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