I think Word has had problems in the past with saving to removable drives,
so they may have disabled that option.

steve

"DanWebster" <DanWebster@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I am running a fresh install of Vista Business. I am having no other
>problems
> really, but this one is making a healthy attempt at trashing all of my
> college work.
>
> When I open a file from my USB drive, then make alterations and save back
> to
> the drive I get the error as per the subject. I am able to save the file
> onto
> the hard drive instead, but this is a really annoying and time consuming
> problem. That has only appeared since moving to Vista.
>
> If I try to open a file after this problem has arisen I get the error
> message "Word experienced an error trying to open the file" It then tries
> to
> recover the data but usually corrupts the data or wipes it...
>
> Any ideas??