"Disk Full" error whenever I try to save my Word document

[Barry Fung]

Hello. My operating system is Windows 2000, and I get the above error
whenever I try to save a Word file to my hard drive. Although I get the
"disk full" message, I know for a fact that my 30GB hard drive is only 60%
full. In fact, the file can be saved if it is first saved to another drive
or media (eg. a USB drive). From there, I can then copy the file onto my
hard drive using Windows Explorer.

The same thing happens when someone else using Word from a different
computer in our office network tries to save a file directly onto my
computer. They too have to first save the Word file on their own computer,
and then transfer it to my hard drive using Windows Explorer. This suggests
that the problem is not due to a corruption of the Word program on my
computer.

Can anyone tell me what is going on? By the way, this problem cropped up a
few days after I installed a new 2nd hard drive on my computer as part of a
backup RAID system (where the 2nd hard drive works in the background to make
a mirror image of my 1st hard drive for backup purposes). Could this have
anything to do with it (although in all other respects, the computer is
working normally)?

Any help is much appreciated. Thanks!

Barry Fung

 

[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Barry,

My operating system is Windows 2000, and I get the above error
whenever I try to save a Word file to my hard drive.

A programming group is certainly the wrong place to post this
question and hope for a quick and competent answer You might
have better luck in word.setup.networking...

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jan 24
2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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