Hello

1.) Yes CHKDSK is an Administrator only tool, to run CHKDSK on a fixed disk
you must be part of the Administrators group.

2.) I only know of the Run-As my friend.
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"Stan Brown" wrote:

> As limited user, and get "Access denied" when I run chkdsk from the
> command line. (I get the equivalent message when I run it from
> Explorer > Properties > Tools > Error-checking.) As administrator, I
> can run chkdsk just fine.
>
> I had a nasty Windows crash on Sunday, and restored my disk with the
> known good backup from Friday; I noticed this problem after the
> backup. The partitions involved are FAT32, not NTFS.
>
> 1. Is CHKDSK, like MSCONFIG, an administrator-only tool? I could
> swear I used to be able to run CHKDSK as a limited user, but maybe
> I'm remembering wrong.
>
> 2. If CHKDSK is an admin-only tool, is there some policy setting to
> all limited users to run it, or do I need to use the RunAs command?
>
> --
> Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
> http://OakRoadSystems.com/
> "If there's one thing I know, it's men. I ought to: it's
> been my life work." -- Marie Dressler, in /Dinner at Eight/
>