WD2000: Err Msg: "The current drive is not valid. A network connection may have been lost, the floppy drive door may be open, or the floppy drive may contain the wrong disk. Choose the Yes button to retry."

ID: Q224067

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Word 2000

ERROR MESSAGE

When you are working with a document, the following error message may appear:

The current drive is not valid. A network connection may have been lost, the floppy drive door may be open, or the floppy drive may contain the wrong disk. Choose the Yes button to retry."

NOTE: Microsoft Office 2000 has built-in functionality that allows you to get more information about difficult-to-troubleshoot alerts or error messages. If you want to enable this functionality for this and other error messages in Microsoft Office 2000, please download the Microsoft Office 2000 Customizable Alerts file from the Microsoft Office Update Web site at the following address:

http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/2000/downloadDetails/alerts.htm

NOTE: If you reached this article by clicking the Web Info button in an error message, you already have Customizable Alerts enabled.

CAUSE

Text was copied and pasted from a now closed document into the current document, and Word tried to perform an AutoRecover Save.

WHAT TO TRY

Text was copied and pasted from a now closed document into the current document, and Word tried to perform an AutoRecover Save.

NOTE: For this problem to occur, the now closed document must have been opened from either a disk (or other external drive on your system) or a network drive. To prevent this problem, turn off the Save AutoRecover info every option in Word using the following steps:

On the Tools menu, click Options.

On the Save tab, click to clear the Save AutoRecover info every check box.

Click OK.

Additional query words: OFF2000


Keywords          : kbdta wd2000 
Version           : WINDOWS:2000
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbinfo