Installed Lion, now I can't save to my hard drive anymore!

I installed Lion yesterday, and now I cannot save documents or anything to my hard drive anymore.  To create a new folder on my hd i need to put in permission, to save a word document it says, can't do!  No space
"Word cannot save or create this file.  The disk may be full or write protected. Try one or more of the following, free more memory, make sure that the disk you want to save the file on is not full, write-protected or damaged. "
How do I fix this?  thanks! e_moma
Message was edited by: e_moma

Hello Debora, and welcome to ASC -
I think it would be better to start your own thread, for a couple of reasons. First, although you may be getting the same error message as the original poster, it's not at all clear yet that they are caused by the same problem, and trying to sort out possible different situations can get very confusing. The original poster seems to have a permission problem even for creating a new folder; if you can save from TextEdit but not from Word then you may have a different problem. The original poster always has priority.
Second, this is the Lion forum, and if you are not running Lion you will get more focused help if you post in the forum that corresponds to your system. It's also important in getting help that people here know as much about your system as possible - you should complete your profile so that people know what you are running.

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