Encarta Virtual Globe, Trial Edition: Testing CD-ROM File Access (173465)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Encarta Virtual Globe, 1998 edition (trial version)
This article was previously published under Q173465 SUMMARY
Because of physical read limitations of some CD-ROM drives, you may be
denied access to some of the files and folders on the Microsoft Encarta
Virtual Globe, 1998 Trial edition compact disc. 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 folder, listed
below, from the Encarta Virtual Globe, Trial Edition CD-ROM:
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| System\Media\Home | 628-629 MB |
To test for specific drive-capacity limitations, try to access the
following files:
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| System\Media\Home\Bottom.spl | 628-629 MB | | System\Media\Avi\T174228a.avi | 606-608 MB | | System\Media\Avi\18352.avi | 568-571 MB | | System\Fly\Uswest.fly | 543-547 MB |
The Encarta Virtual Globe, Trial Edition compact disc contains 629 MB of
data. The final file on the CD-ROM is System\Media\Home\Topb.spl.
Testing Your CD-ROM Drive
To test 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 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 one of the following files to the hard disk drive:
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| System\Media\Home\Bottom.spl | 628-629 MB | | System\Media\Avi\T174228a.avi | 606-608 MB | | System\Media\Avi\18352.avi | 568-571 MB | | System\Fly\Uswest.fly | 543-547 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 compact 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 Bottom.spl file on the
CD-ROM to the version of the Bottom.spl file you copied to your hard
disk drive, type the following at the MS-DOS command prompt and then
press ENTER:
fc /b d:\System\Media\Home\Bottom.spl c:\Bottom.spl
where D is the letter of your CD-ROM drive, and C is the letter of your
hard disk drive.
If you receive errors, the CD-ROM drive is having problems reading the
compact disc at that location.
| Modification Type: | Major | Last Reviewed: | 5/6/1999 |
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| Keywords: | kbprb KB173465 |
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