Elevation

ymcgee

New Member
I keep getting the following error message when I try to use Eraser:

Information:
Statistics:

Erased area = 0 bytes

Cluster tips = 0 bytes

Data written = 0 bytes

Write time = 0.00 s

Failures:
Error: Erasing the Free Space of a drive requires elevation
Error: Erasing the Free Space of a drive requires elevation
Error: Failed to erase file names from drive C:\, don't know why exactly.

I am using Eraser 5.86 and my operating system is Windows Vista. Please let me know what I can do to fix the problem. Thanks.
 

ymcgee

New Member
I am still getting the same message even when I try to run the program as the administrator. Any suggestions?
 

Gerry W

New Member
I went to User Accounts in Control Panel (Vista) and turned off the User Account Control thus "elevating" me to a higher Administrator status. I erased my unused disc space then turned the account control on after I finished. It worked for me. Gerry
 

Joel

Active Member
It's interesting. I tried it myself and it does work properly. I did it with UAC on and it is fine. Hm. Keep these reports coming in.

Joel
 

joeyabc

New Member
Hi ya,

I had the same problem as the others did on Vista Home premium, but I used your suggested trick (run as admin) and it worked.

Maybe everyone else is using the shell extension? I can't get it to work when right clicking on the hdd/partition to erase, but opening eraser through the start menu and right clicking on 'run as admin' then using the erase on demand works fine.

Joey
 

kdschida

New Member
Is there a way to have eraser start up in this mode?

Okay, I'm able to get eraser to start up in this mode as described above when I need it but, is there a way to start it up as an administrator automatically when Windows Vista boots?

Kurt
 

Joel

Active Member
Not currently. Is there a need to?

Joel
 
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