Need ot run chkdsk, Vista says I need elevated mode

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??

Right click command prompt and click run as administrator.

Thanks. It's chking my dsk now.

Oh, for the good old DOS days.

[Robert_M_Abruzzi]

I've be reading your replies about right clicking on the command prompt to activate "run as administrator". Please explain more about this because I have right clicked so many places and don't get the option of "run as administrator". Doing this with running checkdisk.exe

Thank you. I'll try it.

[pandaking]

I was looking for help on this matter also. Saw this somewhere:
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You may also want to do this. Right click on Command Prompt (Start
Menu\Programs\Accessories), and choose
Run as Administrator. Copy the following, and Paste it after the prompt.

sfc /SCANFILE="C:\Windows\System32\chkdsk.exe"

Press Enter.
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Hope it works for you.

Regards,
pandaking

[usmc060670]

Partial information is missing here on the first solution..

Go to START
Then instead of selecting RUN and typing CMD there go to
SEARCH and type in CMD and it will come up with the
CMD.exe command
Right click there to get the RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR option

[shadowofneo]

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

You're replying to a THREE YEAR OLD post.
Oh. Forgive me. I see you're another techarena moron who can't read,
doesn't realize he/she/it is posting to a Usenet newsgroup, and has no idea
how to start a new thread.
MORON!


--

"Don't pick a fight with an old man.
If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you."

[torr10]

and yet you posted to the same thread...and you weren't helpful....seems like you're the bigger moron...

[Rollie]

Originally Posted by shadowofneo

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

Try This:
Go to: START>ALL Programs>Accessories>Right Click; on the Command Promt You will get a menu it starts with OPEN, Run as Administrator, Open File Location etc
You want to left click on the secound item in the list or the
RUN AS ADMINISTRATOR
if it is the therd or lower down the list it is usualy the secound one on the list, doing this will open the Command Promt window as the admin.
Enjoy
Rollie