Unable to save document!

[Chee Meng]

Office version : Office 2000

OS : Windows 98

I received a Word file via e-mail and am unable to save the document after
making a few amendments to it. After trying with several ways to save the
file, the following message window was displayed instead:-

"The disk is full trying to write to C::. Free some space on this drive, or
save the document on another disk. Try one ."

There were no other applications(besides MS Word and MS Outlook) running at
that time. I have:-

1. Try using File, Save As.. but failed.

2. Save the attachment first into the hard disk, made the necessary changes
and perform a File, Save but failed.

3. Try saving it into a floppy but failed.

4. Copy/Cut and Paste into a new document and save but failed.

5. Remove all temporary files as suggested(from MS Knowledge Base KB224059)
but failed.

6. Rebooted my machine and try the above methods again but failed too.

Any reason why MS Word is behaving like this? What does the path "C::"
points to?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Guest]

Is it just this one document? If you receive any other files, do they work okay? Possible corruption that is being copied over

Since if you copy it to a new document, and paste and then cannot save from the new document, try turning on Paragraph Marks and copying everything but the last paragraph symbol to a new document and then saving that.

 

[Chee Meng]

Yes, it is just that particular document. When I initiate to save, it
prompts me to enter a filename. After I did that, Word commences to save.
Just as it is about to complete(indicated by the progress bar at the bottom
of the window) that message appear.

Tried your suggestion but the result remains the same.

Thanks.

Is it just this one document? If you receive any other files, do they

work okay? Possible corruption that is being copied over?

Since if you copy it to a new document, and paste and then cannot save

from the new document, try turning on Paragraph Marks and copying everything
but the last paragraph symbol to a new document and then saving that.

 

[Guest]

Well, I'm not so sure why this is happening to you, or what causes it, but you also asked "What does Drive 'C' point to?" and I can tell you that it is hard drive containing your entire memory. Yes, that means your entire system is located on it.

The other drives have another designated hardware periphial that's phisically joined to your system, like "A", that means the Floppy 3 1/2" The "B" drive usually reffers to any Zip Drive or the old-school 5" Floppys that might've been installed by you and then designated to point to that drive, otherwise, by default, you will not see the "B" drive untill you assign it in that manner. The "D" drive is the CD-ROM. If there's "E" or any other drives, they're either a CD-R, DVD-ROM, or another mountable device placed in the system, and may also point to a secondary hard drive you've installed

I Hope that clears that up, if not, please reply and I'll try to clarify further.