someone in my office has Windows XP SP2, 3.2Ghz Celeron Processor with 1GB
memory. She has a 35GB C drive partition, 22GB of which is free.

When she has multiple MS Word documents open (in this case she had 3 big
ones open) the message "Disk Full" pops up. What would cause this?

The date and time was 10/23/2008 11:04 AM, and on a whim, Carl Gross
pounded out on the keyboard:

> someone in my office has Windows XP SP2, 3.2Ghz Celeron Processor with 1GB
> memory. She has a 35GB C drive partition, 22GB of which is free.
>
> When she has multiple MS Word documents open (in this case she had 3 big
> ones open) the message "Disk Full" pops up. What would cause this?

Hi Carl,

Found a few KB articles that might help:

"You receive a 'The disk is full trying to write to drive' error message
when you try to save, open, or close a document in Word 2000"
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=224031

"You receive a 'The disk is full or too many files are open' error
message when you save a document in Word 2000"
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=224041

"You receive a 'The disk is full. Free some space on this drive, or save
the document on another drive' error message when you try to save a file
in Word 2000"
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=224059

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Each o fhtese have to do with freeing up disk space by saving them to
different drives or deleting files. The main drive that she is working from
has 22GB free. The open files are not THAT big.

"Terry R." wrote:

> The date and time was 10/23/2008 11:04 AM, and on a whim, Carl Gross
> pounded out on the keyboard:
>
> > someone in my office has Windows XP SP2, 3.2Ghz Celeron Processor with 1GB
> > memory. She has a 35GB C drive partition, 22GB of which is free.
> >
> > When she has multiple MS Word documents open (in this case she had 3 big
> > ones open) the message "Disk Full" pops up. What would cause this?
>
> Hi Carl,
>
> Found a few KB articles that might help:
>
> "You receive a 'The disk is full trying to write to drive' error message
> when you try to save, open, or close a document in Word 2000"
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=224031
>
> "You receive a 'The disk is full or too many files are open' error
> message when you save a document in Word 2000"
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=224041
>
> "You receive a 'The disk is full. Free some space on this drive, or save
> the document on another drive' error message when you try to save a file
> in Word 2000"
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=224059
>
> --
> Terry R.
>
> ***Reply Note***
> Anti-spam measures are included in my email address.
> Delete NOSPAM from the email address after clicking Reply.
>

How much physical RAM does the machine have installed ? With
all the files opened in Word have you checked TaskMgr for items
like Memory Usage, Handles and I/O counts ? Process to check is
WinWord.Exe.

Also a key piece of data would be which version of Microsoft
Word is being used.

Has the machine in question had it's Temp folders cleaned ?

"Carl Gross" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:F8724EFF-BD6F-4E72-8DF4-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Each o fhtese have to do with freeing up disk space by saving them to
> different drives or deleting files. The main drive that she is working
> from
> has 22GB free. The open files are not THAT big.
>
> "Terry R." wrote:
>
>> The date and time was 10/23/2008 11:04 AM, and on a whim, Carl Gross
>> pounded out on the keyboard:
>>
>> > someone in my office has Windows XP SP2, 3.2Ghz Celeron Processor with
>> > 1GB
>> > memory. She has a 35GB C drive partition, 22GB of which is free.
>> >
>> > When she has multiple MS Word documents open (in this case she had 3
>> > big
>> > ones open) the message "Disk Full" pops up. What would cause this?
>>
>> Hi Carl,
>>
>> Found a few KB articles that might help:
>>
>> "You receive a 'The disk is full trying to write to drive' error message
>> when you try to save, open, or close a document in Word 2000"
>> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=224031
>>
>> "You receive a 'The disk is full or too many files are open' error
>> message when you save a document in Word 2000"
>> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=224041
>>
>> "You receive a 'The disk is full. Free some space on this drive, or save
>> the document on another drive' error message when you try to save a file
>> in Word 2000"
>> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=224059
>>
>> --
>> Terry R.
>>
>> ***Reply Note***
>> Anti-spam measures are included in my email address.
>> Delete NOSPAM from the email address after clicking Reply.
>>

Carl

Once the RAM memory is fully utilised the system will use the pagefile,
which could take up all the free disk space. Another explanation could a
corrupted file causing the system to keep processing the file using more
and more memory resulting in an ever expanding pagefile.

Have you checked to see whether your Word normal.dot template has
corrupted?
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...peningWord.htm

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Hope this helps.

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Carl Gross wrote:
> someone in my office has Windows XP SP2, 3.2Ghz Celeron Processor
> with 1GB memory. She has a 35GB C drive partition, 22GB of which is
> free.
>
> When she has multiple MS Word documents open (in this case she had 3
> big ones open) the message "Disk Full" pops up. What would cause
> this?

The date and time was 10/23/2008 1:46 PM, and on a whim, Carl Gross
pounded out on the keyboard:

> Each o fhtese have to do with freeing up disk space by saving them to
> different drives or deleting files. The main drive that she is working from
> has 22GB free. The open files are not THAT big.
>
> "Terry R." wrote:
>
>> The date and time was 10/23/2008 11:04 AM, and on a whim, Carl Gross
>> pounded out on the keyboard:
>>
>>> someone in my office has Windows XP SP2, 3.2Ghz Celeron Processor with 1GB
>>> memory. She has a 35GB C drive partition, 22GB of which is free.
>>>
>>> When she has multiple MS Word documents open (in this case she had 3 big
>>> ones open) the message "Disk Full" pops up. What would cause this?
>> Hi Carl,
>>
>> Found a few KB articles that might help:
>>
>> "You receive a 'The disk is full trying to write to drive' error message
>> when you try to save, open, or close a document in Word 2000"
>> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=224031
>>
>> "You receive a 'The disk is full or too many files are open' error
>> message when you save a document in Word 2000"
>> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=224041
>>
>> "You receive a 'The disk is full. Free some space on this drive, or save
>> the document on another drive' error message when you try to save a file
>> in Word 2000"
>> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=224059
>>
>>
> Each o fhtese have to do with freeing up disk space by saving them to
> different drives or deleting files. The main drive that she is working from
> has 22GB free. The open files are not THAT big.


You didn't read them close enough or only went by the heading I
included. There are other resolutions on the pages. Take a little time
and study it, you may find them helpful.

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