Word 2000/Floppy Drive Problem

[mrhair]

Hello,
I have a question about Microsoft Word 2000 and floppy drives. Are there any known instances of Word giving blue screen "Can't Read/Write to A Drive" type of errors when a document is trying to get Autosaved to a floppy disk? This recently happened and we can't get the desktop back as the blue screen seems to persist. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Aaron

 

[zuffy]

Can you use the floppy drive other than Word... like booting from a floppy, accessing the floppy via the Windows Explorer, etc.? If no, then you got a bad floppy or check the cable connection.

 

[johnlog]

Mrhair,

>>>. Are there any known instances of Word giving blue screen &quot;Can't Read/Write to A Drive&quot; type of errors when a document is trying to get Autosaved to a floppy disk? <<<

Windows word processors like Word 2000 usually create rather large files even if it is a short document. Most likely your problem is the Word file you are trying to save is to large to fit on a 1.44 floppy disk.

I had a similar problem a while back and those darned floppy disk drives will halt your system until it finishes saving or doing whatever on the floppy disk.

Check to see if you can save that same file to your hard drive. If you can then there is nothing wrong with your file. You are just trying to save a large file on a small size floppy disk.

Also if you have to many files saved in the root directory on a floppy disk it will only accept so many files and then no more even if there is still some free space on the floppy disk. Create a sub directory on your floppy then you can save files until the disk is really full.

MD directory name

JohnL