"Dave R." <dwragle (at) drbsystems (dot) com> wrote in message
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> "Mr. Arnold" <MR. Arnold@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> "Dave R." <dwragle (at) drbsystems (dot) com> wrote in message
>> news:eX3%23$zw0IHA.4164@xxxxxx Quote:
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>>> "Dave R." <dwragle (at) drbsystems (dot) com> wrote in message
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>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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?
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>> 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.
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> That's what I was afraid of. Any idea why this would be restricted to
> administrators only?
> Because they are administrators that administer the O/S?