needs help saving to floppy

[50greg]

I use MS Word 97, and I'm trying to save my documents on a diskette in preparation for possibly buying a new PC. When I try to save one, though, a dialog box comes up that says, "You do not have access to the folder 'A:/.' See your administrator to gain access to the folder." Well, I have no administrator-- at least as far as I know. 🙂 Anybody know how I can get around that?

 

[TMF Jeff]

One possibility might be that the floppy disk isn't formatted?

 

[50greg]

It's probably not formatted, but always before the system would go ahead and format the diskette, and then save the file.

 

[Ronley]

Most floppy disks have a sliding plastic thing one one corner, if it's slid into position so the hole is open, the disk is write protected and cannot be written to. Just slide it back to fix it. Not sure if this is it, but it's the first thing that came to mind.

Note: There's usually a hole on the other side without a slider, that's normal.