Need ot run chkdsk, Vista says I need elevated mode

I'm having problems with an external HDD and I want to run chkdsk. I invoke
the DOS prompt with chkdsk L:\ and it says that I can't and that I don't have
sufficient priviledges ane I need to be in elevated mode. I am
"Administrator". How do I run this utility??

 

Right click command prompt and click run as administrator.

NIK

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> I'm having problems with an external HDD and I want to run chkdsk. I
> invoke
> the DOS prompt with chkdsk L: and it says that I can't and that I don't
> have
> sufficient priviledges ane I need to be in elevated mode. I am
> "Administrator". How do I run this utility?? <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

 

Thanks. It's chking my dsk now.

Oh, for the good old DOS days.

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> Right click command prompt and click run as administrator.
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> NIK
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> > I'm having problems with an external HDD and I want to run chkdsk. I
> > invoke
> > the DOS prompt with chkdsk L: and it says that I can't and that I don't
> > have
> > sufficient priviledges ane I need to be in elevated mode. I am
> > "Administrator". How do I run this utility?? <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->
>
> <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

 

I've be reading your replies about right clicking on the command prompt
to activate "run as administrator". Please explain more about this
because I have right clicked so many places and don't get the option of
"run as administrator". Doing this with running checkdisk.exe

Robert_M_Abruzzi


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I was looking for help on this matter also. Saw this somewhere:
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You may also want to do this. Right click on Command Prompt (Start
Menu\Programs\Accessories), and choose
Run as Administrator. Copy the following, and Paste it after the
prompt.

sfc /SCANFILE="C:\Windows\System32\chkdsk.exe"

Press Enter.
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Hope it works for you.

Regards,
pandaking


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Thank you. I'll try it.


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