SFC utility

Hi all I am new to Forums but thought this might be the place to seek help with a problem I am having.

I recently got a new external hard drive with 1TB capacity and have tried to do a back up of my files. There was an error when I tried to do this ox81000008 which informs me that I must use the Sytem File Checker.

I have opened up a command prompt to and typed in sfc /scannow

However it won't run and I'm being informed "You must be an administrator running a console session in order to use the sfc utility"

I am the only person that uses my PC and my profile has full administration.

Can anyone please tell me what this all means and how I might be able to successfully backup my files?

Thanks.

right-click the command prompt shortcut and select "run as administrator"

Thanks for that, however that does not appear as an option for me to check.

I do apologise. You are right. I was clicking in the wrong place. D'oh!

I have run the SFC and I'm being told "Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations"

What does this mean? All I want to do it a backup for goodness sake.

Try this ( Windows File Backup fails with error 0x81000008 on a Windows Vista-based computer ) - and I think the first digit of your error code is not o but 0 (zero).

Thank you I will give it a try. Yes you are right about the error code. I will pay more attention next time when I'm writing.