Errors in Word when trying to save a document

[Mich]

Hello. I am hoping that someone out there will be able to
help me. Lately when I've been using Word I will click
ctrl-s to save (to my hard drive, not a disk) and the
following message appears:

"There is an unreasonable disk error on file ~WRL2129.
The disk you're working on has a media problem that
prevents Word from using it. Try the following: try
formatting another disk; or save the document to a disk."

The problem is I am not using a disk in the first place,
plus it loses my document and I don't know how to
recover. Since I'm in the process of writing my thesis
I've taken to emailing myself the documents, so thus far
I haven't lost complete files, but it is still an
enormous pain in the butt. Has anyone come across this
or know how to fix it? Why does this happen?
I am running Office XP (Word) on a laptop.
Thanks.

 

[Beth Melton]

Hi Mich,

It can be pretty frustrating when disks become "unreasonable". <grin>

When is the last time you preformed maintenances such as a Scan Disk?
(your hard drive btw can also be referred to as a 'disk')

For a full cleanup/maintenance procedure that should be run
periodically, see this article:
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/AppErrors/LockedFiles.htm

I suggest you perform the above first. The problem sounds like it is
cause by a bad sector on your disk or a problem with your temp files.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

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Beth Melton

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[Mich]

Thanks for replying.
I've actually done a scan disk since the problem first
began and it happened again today when i was using the
same document. I've since done another scan disk thingy,
so i'll have to wait and see, i guess. As far as I can
remember, it just happens with this one document. Is it
possible that I have some sort of Word virus? I do a
virus scan every night...