cmd prompt

[nitestryker]

• Etcher version: V1.2.1
• Operating system and architecture: Windows 10 x64
• Image flashed: No
• Do you see any meaningful error information in the DevTools?

Humor me on a theory. I am using windows 10 x64 and I have issues with other programs running cmd prompts in the past with out administrative permissions . I've actually had to run command prompt with Administrative permissions to get certain programs to run correctly

now here is my point. I have had no luck getting my image to burn I noticed that it runs a cmd prompt and my theory is maybe the cmd prompt needs to be run with administrative privileges for it to work. because after i get the UAC screen asking if its ok to run the cmd prompt and i say yes it just doesn't go any further then that. I was trying to figure out a "work-around" for this but have had no luck to test my theory.

let me know your thoughts

i was wondering if testing by "hard coding" it to run the cmd prompt as administrator if that might fix the problem.

[benp13]

I had the same problem. I restarted Etcher using "run as administrator" and it works ok now.

[lurch]

i was wondering if testing by "hard coding" it to run the cmd prompt as administrator if that might fix the problem.

I'm no Windows expert, but I believe that's exactly what the "UAC screen" is asking. We use https://github.com/jorangreef/sudo-prompt to get the administrative privileges that Etcher needs to be able to perform low-level disk writes.

[jhermsmeier]

The writer process / the cmd is elevated on Windows (hence the UAC prompt), but there were some issues we fixed recently, which might be related: #1950 and #1910 – those will be released in the next version shortly, and maybe fix it.

PS: @lurch on Windows we're using a native binding that @jviotti wrote, not sudo-prompt, because there were issues with that

[lurch]

Ahh, I thought we were using sudo-prompt because it's still in package.json ? https://github.com/resin-io/etcher/blob/master/package.json#L93

EDIT: Oh, I see. We're only using sudo-prompt on non-Windows platforms :-) https://github.com/resin-io/etcher/blob/master/lib/shared/permissions.js#L161

[jviotti]

We use `sudo-prompt` for GNU/Linux and macOS, but our custom native module on Windows.

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[captainmustard]

Not sure if this comment will post since this issue is closed but...

I had this issue and the problem was that C:\Windows\system32 was missing from the PATH on my windows install. Was a quick easy fix. Had to close and restart etcher for it to begin working.

hope this helps someone.

[lurch]

@captainmustard See also #3621