trying to acess a word document

[Guest]

hello,
I am trying to access a word document on a floppy disk,
but my computer won't let me acess the file!
At first I would see a list of documents on the disk, I
would try to open it and acess would be denied. Then it
started telling me that the disk is not formated and if I
wanted to format it, I said now because that would erase
the informtion I had!
I tried again and a window opended saying that i did not
have access to this file, and to see my administrator!

any help would be great,
thank you

 

[Doug Robbins]

NEVER open a document on a floppy disk. Always copy it to the hard drive
and open it there.

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Hope this helps,
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Guest]

Thanks Doug,
I was going to do that but now the computer asks me to
format the disk because it is not formated, when I say
know (again, as said before, to prevent data from being
deleted), it jus goes back to "my computer" page!
do I have any options
Thanks again.

 

[Jezebel]

It might be too late. When you open a document, Word makes a copy in the
same folder as the original -- it's actually the copy that you're working on
while the document is open. If the document is on a floppy, the result can
be an irretrievably scrambled disk.

Write-protect the floppy, restart your machine, and try again to copy the
file from the floppy to the hard disk. If that fails, you might be able to
retrieve the document using a disk recovery program; but you're probably
better off cutting your losses. Break the floppy so you waste no more time
on it, and start again.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you can see the file in Windows Explorer, you should be able to drag it
from the floppy drive to the HD. If not, then your repeated attempts to open
it in Word have irreversibly corrupted it.

 

[Guest]

Thanks,

What is the best device to save documents that you may
want to change at some point?

Also Doug you mentioned "you should never open a document
from a floppy, you should always copy it to the hardrive
first", how do I do that (probably pretty simple,
but....)?

Thanks again,
Luis

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Save them to the HD to begin with. If you want backups, copy the files to
removable media. If you ever need to restore the copied files, copy them
back to the HD before trying to open them in Word.