I don't know if this would give you an error message like you described, but
I noticed that in my BIOS there is an option to choose whether to make my
floppy read only or read/write.  Perhaps if this was set to read only you
would see what you describe.

John

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Parrella" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 1:01 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD]


> I think this is an OS problem. I have Windows98 and
> regardless which application I am in, whenever I try
> to save to a floppy disk an error message pops up
> saying that the disk is write protected.

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