Microsoft KB Archive/20339

Word: System Errors and Disk Errors in Version 1.00 PSS ID Number: Q20339 Article last modified on 03-04-1993 PSS database name: M_WorD

1.00 1.05

MACINTOSH

Summary:

The most common disk errors encountered in Microsoft Word include the following:


 * 1) “Serious disk error on file.” Word encountered a disk error when reading or writing a file.
 * 2) “Unrecoverable disk error on file.” Word encountered a disk error when reading or writing a file.
 * 3) “System Error -36.” This System error indicates that Word encountered a physical problem when writing to disk. This problem can happen when Word is saving a print file to a program disk.

With all of these disk errors, it is most likely that the disk is permanently damaged and the computer will have be shut down.

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1993.