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fat32 to ntfs on external hard drive

by summerlug Jan 4, 2008 11:48PM PST

Hi I have an iomega external drive,conected to an LA2 running vista.Iomega suggest converting to ntfs for best performance.(cmd enter convert,drive name,:/fs:ntfs)No problem? The command wont run"you have to invoke this utility running in elevated mode". My problem is how to run in elevated mode? I am the only user on the pc and am administrator.Help on another forum suggested right click on the prompt and then on the admin icon this does not happen in cmd.
I am relatively new to this so any help appreciated regards mike

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Have You Tried??

by Grif Thomas Forum moderator Jan 6, 2008 1:55AM PST

I'm not on a Vista machine at the moment, but try finding the "cmd.exe" file, either through a search or by navigating to the C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe location (I think that's the location on Vista), then RIGHT click on the "cmd.exe" file, choose "run as administrator".. It should open a command window for you.. If it doesn't, the double click on the "cmd.exe" file and try your commands.

Hope this helps.

Grif

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Have You Tried ,Reply.

by summerlug Jan 6, 2008 10:50PM PST

Thanks. That works. I found "cmd" in search right click run as admin.Easy when you know.I had been opening "cmd" and then r/click!
All the best
Mick.

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