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I am trying to transfer Word docs (Win 98)from floppy discs to a flash drive
to I can install on a newer 'puter. I keep getting a message when I try to copy or send the docs to the drive that they are "write protected". The little thing on the disc itself is in the unlocked position. Help! |
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Djtipp wrote:
I am trying to transfer Word docs (Win 98)from floppy discs to a flash drive to I can install on a newer 'puter. I keep getting a message when I try to copy or send the docs to the drive that they are "write protected". The little thing on the disc itself is in the unlocked position. Help! If I understand correctly, the write protected message is for the flash drive, not the floppy. Check the properties for the flash drive or, if the flash drive is empty, see if you can reformat it. Ron |
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Actually, the write protected message is for the floppy and not the flash
drive--sorry for the confustion. "Ronald Roberts" wrote: Djtipp wrote: I am trying to transfer Word docs (Win 98)from floppy discs to a flash drive to I can install on a newer 'puter. I keep getting a message when I try to copy or send the docs to the drive that they are "write protected". The little thing on the disc itself is in the unlocked position. Help! If I understand correctly, the write protected message is for the flash drive, not the floppy. Check the properties for the flash drive or, if the flash drive is empty, see if you can reformat it. Ron |
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Both floppy disks and flash drives have write-protect tabs. Check them both.
Generally you get a message like that about the destination drive, not the source drive. Note, neither floppy disks nor flash drives are a place to actually use Word documents. They should be used (read, edited, printed) only from the hard drive. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Djtipp" wrote in message ... Actually, the write protected message is for the floppy and not the flash drive--sorry for the confustion. "Ronald Roberts" wrote: Djtipp wrote: I am trying to transfer Word docs (Win 98)from floppy discs to a flash drive to I can install on a newer 'puter. I keep getting a message when I try to copy or send the docs to the drive that they are "write protected". The little thing on the disc itself is in the unlocked position. Help! If I understand correctly, the write protected message is for the flash drive, not the floppy. Check the properties for the flash drive or, if the flash drive is empty, see if you can reformat it. Ron |
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Thanks Charles--the tabs on the discs are all in the "unlocked" position, so
it's not that. What happened was my hard drive crashed and I am just left with some floppys. I cannot use the original hard drive they were used on. I have taken the discs for example, to work and tried to load them onto that hard drive. It works, but I then cannot copy them onto a flash drive (as I don't want to save them on my work computer)--everytime I try and copy I get that same message. "Charles Kenyon" wrote: Both floppy disks and flash drives have write-protect tabs. Check them both. Generally you get a message like that about the destination drive, not the source drive. Note, neither floppy disks nor flash drives are a place to actually use Word documents. They should be used (read, edited, printed) only from the hard drive. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Djtipp" wrote in message ... Actually, the write protected message is for the floppy and not the flash drive--sorry for the confustion. "Ronald Roberts" wrote: Djtipp wrote: I am trying to transfer Word docs (Win 98)from floppy discs to a flash drive to I can install on a newer 'puter. I keep getting a message when I try to copy or send the docs to the drive that they are "write protected". The little thing on the disc itself is in the unlocked position. Help! If I understand correctly, the write protected message is for the flash drive, not the floppy. Check the properties for the flash drive or, if the flash drive is empty, see if you can reformat it. Ron |
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