How do I save a word document to a floopy disk?

[Ed Bennett]

Funny, when I plug in my 2.0 gb drive it reads F:Travel Drive on My
Computer.

Perhaps "Travel drive" is a brand name?

I'd screen capture it to prove it but I don't have to prove
my self. Go to http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=travel+drives
notice only the first one is called a pen drive, and it only holds 64
mbs the rest....42 before I got tired of counting (page 4) said
"Travel Drives" perhaps someone besides you might be right.

Of course searching for travel drives will return more "travel drives" than
"flash drives"

http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1="travel+drive"&word2="flash+drive"

Flash drive beats travel drive 55 to 1.
Pen drive beats travel drive 19 to 1.
Usb key beats travel drive 10 to 1.

Even on your Memorex site it discontinued the Flash drives

MY Memorex site? Huh?

 

[Ed Bennett]

3½-inch: Floppy is something of a misnomer for these disks, as they
are encased in a rigid envelope.

The disk platters themselves are floppy. In a hard drive, the platters are
rigid metal.

Despite their small size,
microfloppies have a larger storage capacity than their cousins --
from 400K to 1.4MB of data. The most common sizes for PCs are 720K
(double-density) and 1.44MB (high-density). That's from Dell.com
quote your sources.

All high-density floppies quote their capacity as 1.44MB. This is their
UNFORMATTED capacity, and is quoted to make the numbers look larger.

Once formatted, the File Allocation Table will take up a certain amount of
space, and so the largest filesize storable on the disk will decrease.
Simply format a disk in Windows and look at the "free space" in drive
properties.

 

[Mike Koewler]

They came from Windows machines.

Mike

Probably came from a MAC. Mac's aren't compatible with Windows. As we all
know some floppies even saved properly can become corrupted. It's rare but
it happens. And even then 99% of the time it the user who saved its fault.

Toodles

:

Don,

yeah, I have a couple of writers who like to do that also. About once
every couple of months, I get a "The Disk in Drive A is not formatted.
Would you like to format it now?" error. Trust me, at some point one of
your very important files will not open.

Mike

Don Schmidt wrote:

I'm just a wild and crazy guy. I have no problems saving to or retrieving
from the floppy, RAM drive or my network hard drive. Being Don Corleone's
nephew has its privileges.<G>

Ciao, bella mia.

donato




You should *never* do that. It should be saved to the hard drive then
copied over to the "floopy".

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]





File
Save as

Then select the A drive and give the file a name and OK.


--
Don
Vancouver USA


message

I have typed an important document in Word 2000 and when I click on the
disk
in the task bar or in the file "pull down" window which has the floppy
disk
image, nothing happens...it does not save even though I have an empty
disk in
the tower.

Thanks for your help.

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

Me too. Better a top poster than a bottom feeder.



| Sweetie,
|
| I've been a top poster for about 10 year now. I actually prefer it. It
| drives me nuts to have to scroll down until I read a response. It's like
| having to read the last third of Chapter 1 before I can get to Chapter 2.
| ;-)
|
|
| --
|
| JoAnn Paules
| MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
|
|
|
| | > On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 02:14:00 +0000, Mike Koewler wrote
| > (in article <[email protected]>):
| >
| >> Sarah,
| >>
| >> It's only fair! Good advice delivered in a nice manner.
| >>
| >> I use floppies all the time. Writers give me a floppy with their
article
| >> on it, I open it and import it. I had my computers set up so I could
| >> access Linda's HD and import articles from it. I thought I had a virus
| >> and in the attempt to remove it, I screwed up something. :-(
| >>
| >> Mike
| >
| > What can I say, Michael? I'm 30 this year, I must be mellowing in my old
| > age... I do wish you, JoAnn, Don, Mary and Brian would stop top-posting,
| > though! ;o) <eg>
| >
| > Mind you, it's a nice day here - the sun is singing, the birds are
| > shining -
| > and the cat's just been sick on the hall carpet. It's brass monkeys
though
| > (my BBC Weather widget is telling me it's currently -1C which I can't
| > believe!)
| >
| > Macs haven't had floppies since time immemorial. The last Mac that had a
| > floppy drive was the Beige G3 (discontinued in 1998, IIRC). They've not
| > had
| > one since.
| >
| > And you're still married?! ;o) Or are you one of these weird blokes who
| > feels
| > he has to name his computers...?
| >
| > You're a prime candidate for a Mac you are. You wouldn't have to worry
| > about viruses then! I love not hearing the hard drive churning away
every
| > morning as AVG does its daily scan. No spyware either.
| >
| > How's Shaun, by the way...? Where is he at the moment?
| >
| > Warmest wishes,
| >
| > Margo
| >
| >
| >
| >
| >
| >
|
|

 

[sure]

The misspelling was deliberate, dear. I wish I did have Dr. Frankenstein's
brain - he was a genius (madder than a roomful of hatters, but a genius).

Well, You certainly have the madder than a roomful of hatters part!

 

[Ed Bennett]

Well, You certainly have the madder than a roomful of hatters part!

Don't we all?

 

[JoAnn Paules [MVP]]

I do! I do!! And I'm one of the saner ones in my family. ;-)