Vista - How to give non-admin user ability to chkdsk drive?

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?

Regards,

Dave

"Dave R." <dwragle (at) drbsystems (dot) com> wrote in message
news:uOPD9Qk0IHA.4476@xxxxxxWidening the net to include a couple of additional newsgroups...

Does anyone know if this can be done, and of so, how?

Regards,

Dave

"Dave R." <dwragle (at) drbsystems (dot) com> wrote in message
news:eX3%23$zw0IHA.4164@xxxxxxEven 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.

"Mr. Arnold" <MR. Arnold@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:esGCddy0IHA.6096@xxxxxxThat's what I was afraid of. Any idea why this would be restricted to
administrators only?

Regards,

Dave

"Dave R." <dwragle (at) drbsystems (dot) com> wrote in message
news:OHl%23NST1IHA.416@xxxxxxBecause they are administrators that administer the O/S?

"Mr. Arnold" <MR. Arnold@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eoLISUZ1IHA.2084@xxxxxxI'm aparently not being clear, so let me try again:

Why can't I as an administrator give the ability to do any administrator
task to another user without giving them the ability to do ALL
administrator tasks? That design seems lacking to me.

Regards,

Dave

"Bruce Chambers" <bchambers@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:uQT2Hba1IHA.2384@xxxxxxThe problem with that approach is that it lacks granularity in privilige
assignment. Just because a user can be trusted to do some aspects of
system administration does not necessarily mean they can be trusted to
perform all aspects of system administration. Yet, in this case (and
others I keep running across), I cannot separate the ability to do a
simple disk check from the ability to do ALL administrative tasks.

We are trying to put into place a concept of a "System Maintainer" -
someone who can handle many aspects of system maintenance, but doesn't
have the keys to the kingdom as it were. Unfortunately, we are being
thwarted by the security model built into Windows. If anyone has any
ideas on how to approach this in a Windows (specifically, Vista)
environment, I'm all ears.

Regards,

Dave

Command-line utilities can be run from standard user without prompts if the
application is given a manifest assigning highestAvailable. Unfortunately,
this may also not give the results you want...
The higher privileged application will open in a separate "DOS" window and
close without providing the user an opportunity to read any information
presented. ChkDsk can be assigned in this method to run on the next boot
where the information will be provided to the user, or the logfile that
ChkDsk could be reviewed after running, but no protected area sectors can be
repaired while run from a standard user.

Again, this is probably not what you wanted.
Easier would be to setup ChkDsk to run each boot by marking the disk as
"dirty" during network initialization.
Again, missing the concept. You want to provide the standard user the
ability to run certain applications while running Windows.

I don't think that exists. Nor did it exist in prior versions. (They were
simply running as administrator and you restricted those functions you did
not want to give to them.)

"Dave R." <dwragle (at) drbsystems (dot) com> wrote in message
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"Bruce Chambers" <bchambers@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ujGMtzl1IHA.5832@xxxxxxNo, I'm not. I'm thinking that *some* aspects of system administration
can be handled by *some* users who have *some*, but not all, of the
rights/privileges of system administrators.
I'm fully aware of chkdsk's purpose and usage, thanks.
I'm not looking for "preventative value".
First, I'm not looking for it to be used "periodically" or "routinely".
Second, if you actually believe this, then you have no idea how a hard
drive functions. That's like saying "the routine periodic reading of
data from hard drives unnecessarily increases the wear and tear on the
hard drives."
I'm not looking to give "ordinary" users, or "power users", this
ability. You should stop trying to divine my intent as you are
consistently making incorrect assumptions.
No, it is granting *a* key to *one part* of the kingdom. A key that I
trust certain users to have. What is it about this that bothers you so
much?

Regards,

Dave

Thanks for the constructive reply, Mark. I'll take a closer look at
your suggestions and ideas and see if they can get me where I want to
go.

Regards,

Dave

"Mark" <jmhonzell@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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