Chkdsk is refusing to run in a CMD window or from the Windows dir. It throws up an error about elevated privileges. Choosing run as Admin has no effect. I changed owner and ticked full privileges but it still wont run. This also happens in 8.1 (works O.K in 7). This is the first time I've tried to run chkdsk in 8/10, anyone else have this problem? Anyone have any Ideas? P.S. It's not just the C: drive, it's any drive.
Yeah, it doesn't matter what I type I keep getting 'Access denied'. I've sorted it on Win 8.1. I had to set full control on CMD.exe & CHKDSK.exe to get it to work. Weird! I'll tackle Win 10 tomorrow, can't be arsed right now. Thanks to both for taking the time to reply btw
click start. type cmd.. RIGHT CLICK AND OPEN FILE LOCATION. .now right click run as admin.. or install powershell.
Yeah, tried that. That's how I usually run CMD from the Start Menu, but 'run as admin' wouldn't work. Even navigating to Windows\System32 and right clicking on Chkdsk.exe and choosing 'run as admin' wouldn't work. Powershell! if it doesn't behave it'll be getting Powersaw.