Pete,
If I read you "right" you can see that there is a disk in the drive and the
files on the disk but are unable to write new data to the disk.
If you flip the disk over you will see a little tab below the hole in the
left corner of the disk. If the little tab is not covering the hole you will
not be able to write to the disk. The tab was meant to be a safety to keep
data on a disk from being accidentally erased or overwritten. It is possible
your disk does not have a tab because it was originally a program disk or
one that you received from a vendor like AOL and you want to reuse the disk
for your own data. Just take a piece of tape and cover the hole and you will
be good to go. 
Hope this helps.

John Seales

I am Cleverly Disguised As A Responsible Adult (most of the time). 


-----Original Message-----
From: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mary E Green
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 10:45 PM
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Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Floppy drive problem


are the disks formatted
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 16:37:43 +0100 Pete Adkins <[log in to unmask]>
writes:
> Hi,
> My name is pete.
> The problem i am having is i cannot save any work to my floppy drive, 
> i can access the drive but not save anything. the message: "word 
> cannot save or create this file,the disk may be full or 
> write-protected" keep poping up. this does not seem to be the case as 
> the disks work perfectly well on my old laptop
>
> Please can you help as this is driving me MAAAAD.........
>
> Regards,
>  pete Adkins
>
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