He said has no sufficient rights when trying to reformat the external hard drive in Windows 7.

I run Windows 7 Home premium. I have an external USB disk, which (after a few corrupted files) I want to reformat. When I try to do that, I get an error message saying that I don't have sufficient rights to perform this operation. I have rights full administrator on my PC and there is no option "run as administrator" available for the format command. Help!

The problem disappeared as if by magic! I tried to eject the disk, we told him I could not do that because it was still in use, and the player then become available to the format command. If the issue has resolved itself of its own, but thanks anyway for taking the time to begin to bend your mind to my problem.

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