I want to run chkdsk but vista says I need adminstrator clout to do it. This is in the command prompt, of course, so how can that be done, please? Cheers
paul
Administrator privileges for chkdsk
- 04 Oct 2009 #1My System Specs
Administrator privileges for chkdsk
- 04 Oct 2009 #2
FromTheRafters GuestMy System SpecsRe: Administrator privileges for chkdsk
Right-click the command prompt icon and choose run as admin.
Enter the proper credentials in the elevation prompt.
Run chkdsk.
"zonkd" <guest@newsgroup-email.com> wrote in message
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> I want to run chkdsk but vista says I need adminstrator clout to do
> it.
> This is in the command prompt, of course, so how can that be done,
> please? Cheers
> paul
>
>
> --
> zonkd
- 04 Oct 2009 #3
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My System SpecsRe: Administrator privileges for chkdsk
Hello Paul,
If you doing this from within Vista, then you will just need to run a elevated command prompt instead. You would right click on the Command Prompt shortcut and click on "Run as administrator" to do this.
Check Disk - chkdsk
Hope this helps,
Shawn
Originally Posted by zonkd 
- 04 Oct 2009 #4My System Specs
Re: Administrator privileges for chkdsk
Cheers, Shawn, and thanks for that. I've just entered the vista world from ages with good old XP. I didn't imagine that the right click procedure with "Run as administrator" would work on command prompt. I'll be more adventurous from now on. Many thanks.
- 04 Oct 2009 #5
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You're welome Paul.
Originally Posted by zonkd
- 05 Oct 2009 #6My System Specs
Re: Administrator privileges for chkdsk
Thanks, too, to The Rafters. It worked well, many thanks.
- 05 Oct 2009 #7
FromTheRafters GuestMy System SpecsRe: Administrator privileges for chkdsk
You're welcome.
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> Thanks, too, to The Rafters. It worked well, many thanks.
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> zonkd
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