[bookport] Re: Why Administrator?
- From: "Grant Hardy" <grant_r_hardy@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 12:32:39 -0800
I did that, checked the disk again and it gave me the same message. I had
both "Automatically fix file system errors" and "Scan for and attempt
recovery of bad sectors" checked. I unchecked "Scan for and attempt
recovery of bad sectors" and left the other checked, and then it completes.
Is this normal?
Grant
----- Original Message -----
From: "ROB MEREDITH" <rmeredith@xxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 12:29 PM
Subject: [bookport] Re: Why Administrator?
> Sounds like its time to reformat the card.
>
>>>> grant_r_hardy@xxxxxxxx 03/23/05 03:18PM >>>
> Hi Guys,
>
> Whenever I attempt to check my disk for errors, I get the following
> message:
> Windows was unable to complete the disk check.
>
> What can I do?
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Neal Ewers" <ewers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 11:11 AM
> Subject: [bookport] Re: Why Administrator?
>
>
>> Larry, given your reasoning below, I for one would like to go with
> your
>> proposal requiring the user to have administrative privileges. The
> only
>> problem I see is that one or more people on the list might not have
>> privileges. Then, I suppose, they could get the person who does
> have
>> those privileges to accomplish the update.
>> Neal
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of LARRY SKUTCHAN
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 12:49 PM
>> To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [bookport] Why Administrator?
>>
>>
>> The reason we are considering requiring administrative rights before
>> applying a firmware update is that we want to check and/or fix errors
> on
>> the flash card before applying the firmware update. If you do not
> have
>> admin rights, you cannot run chkdsk, and we cannot run the automated
>> version of this tool to correct errors.
>>
>> Now, if you are saying, that you do not care to check for errors
> before
>> applying the update and you know the update could damage the device
> if
>> there are errors on the card, and you would have to send it back in,
>> that is fine. We just assumed that you would prefer to check the
> media
>> for damages, correct those errors, then apply the update on a known
> good
>> structure even at the cost of the inconvenience of logging in as an
>> administrator.
>>
>> The fact is that you need to check the flash card for errors, and we
> can
>> do that for you. Even if you want to do it yourself though, you
> will
>> need to have admin rights.
>>
>>
>
>
>
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