"Dave R." <dwragle (at) drbsystems (dot) com> wrote in message
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> "Dave R." <dwragle (at) drbsystems (dot) com> wrote in message
> news:uOPD9Qk0IHA.4476@xxxxxx Quote:
>> On some Vista Business systems I deploy, I need to be able to give
>> non-admin uers the ability to chkdsk drives. I found the "Perform volume
>> maintenance tasks" user rights policy, but that isn't doing it.
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>> Anyone know if it is even possible (I know some things can only be done
>> by Administrators), and if so, how?
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> Widening the net to include a couple of additional newsgroups...
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> Does anyone know if this can be done, and of so, how?
> Even on XP, I don't think you can run ChKdsk without admin rights on XP if
the file system is NTFS and you can't do it on Vista with the file system
being NTFS. The only way you can do it is if the file system is FAT32 -- no
security.