enhanced authorization

[Guest]

Message: I need elevated act authorization... I want to format one of my hard
drives and vista will not let me I have administrator acct but it keeps
saying that this needs elevated authority

 

[P. Di Stolfo]

Hello,

the program you are formatting with has to be started by right-clicking it
and choosing "Run as administrator". Then it will have elevated rights for
formatting.

Greetings,
P. Di Stolfo

 

[Guest]

The program I'm using is not a program but a hard drive that I want to reformat

 

[Guest]

Message: I need elevated act authorization... I want to format one of my hard
drives and vista will not let me I have administrator acct but it keeps
saying that this needs elevated authority

 

[P. Di Stolfo]

Hello,
yes, but which program are you using to format? The command prompt?

Greetings,
P. Di Stolfo

 

[Guest]

I've tried the cmd pmt and windows my computer and clicking on my drive and
using format

 

[P. Di Stolfo]

Hello,
using the command prompt, it should work. Go to Start -> type cmd -> and
right-click cmd.exe -> Run as administrator.

Greetings,
P. Di Stolfo

 

[Guest]

it says it's a system partition and will not let me format it

 

[P. Di Stolfo]

Oh, sorry, I misunderstood.
From the active and started Vista, you can't format the hard disk where the
active Windows is located. You have to boot from a bootable CD/DVD (like the
Windows CDs/DVDs) or another media that is capable of booting and formatting
your drives. Have you got a Windows setup CD? There, you can choose to
format your drive and then simply exit.

Greetings,
P. Di Stolfo

 

[Guest]

Windows installation setup cd does not let me just format the drive but wants
to reinstall windows on this drive and I want to clean this drive off- I
have copied the boot mgr file to the drive I use to operate my system.. the
reason this all happened is I changed motherboard from an AMD to Intel board.
and it wouldn't start up so I had to load the operating system to another
drive(partition)? and the boot mgr is on the wrong disk