Need ot run chkdsk, Vista says I need elevated mode

[Lee Beck]

I'm having problems with an external HDD and I want to run chkdsk. I invoke
the DOS prompt with chkdsk L:\ and it says that I can't and that I don't have
sufficient priviledges ane I need to be in elevated mode. I am
"Administrator". How do I run this utility??

 

[Nicholas Hall]

Right click command prompt and click run as administrator.

NIK

 

[Lee Beck]

Thanks. It's chking my dsk now.

Oh, for the good old DOS days.

 

[Michael]

so basically i did this, search "cmd" in the start menu>open file
location> "select cmd.exe" hit "alt button"> file>run as adminisatrator
then type in "format X: /fs:fat32" be sure to have a raw allocation on
the drive, this worked for my half terabyte so it should work up to 2tb


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