Re: MS Word is not recognizing my disc, it won't allow me to open

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"BonBri53" <BonBri53@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

> That's fine, but how am I supposed to do that if I can't even get into my
> disc to begin with? I know how to save files to the hard drive, that's not
> the problem. The problem is I can't get into the disc to open my files in
> the
> first place.

Have you tried accessing the disk from Windows Explorer? If you can't then
you've corrupted the disk by opening and closing files on it from Word. In
that case you should give the disk to someone who's experienced and see if
they can rescue the files.

I hope you had a backup.


--
Bob
http://www.kanyak.com


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