BUG: CHKDSK stuck at 11% for hours, but was actually working

Anonymous
2013-10-29T15:12:28+00:00

I ran CHKDSK on my Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit laptop.  The message said that it was up to 11% and then it stopped advancing for ages.  I thought that CHKDSK had stalled or crashed, but it turns out that it was working, it's just that it took several hours to complete one stage but it didn't update the progress indicator.

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I ran CHKDISK from the command prompt on my C drive and it offered to run the command on the next restart.  I answered yes and restarted, and CHKDSK ran, updating its progress, but it stopped at 11% and stayed there for ages and ages.

Note that in Windows 8.1, CHKDSK doesn't display lines of text as it goes along like in certain earlier versions of Windows.  It just displays a single line, e.g. "Scanning and repairing drive (C:): 11% complete" that gets updated from time to time.

At first I thought it was stalled or crashed, so I rebooted the laptop.  CHKDSK ran again and once again got stuck at 11%.  So I rebooted the laptop with a recovery USB and ran CHKDISK from the command prompt.  This one displayed more progress information.  It estimated that a particular stage would take 3 or 4 hours (it fluctuated from one to the other at first before settling on over 3 hours and then slowly counting down).  After several hours it completed successfully, fixing some errors and reporting its results.

I rebooted the computer again, from the hard drive.  CHKDSK ran again (since it didn't complete before) and after several hours it completed.  It warned me that Windows didn't close normally (because I interrupted the previous CHKDSK) and gave me some options.

So it looks like there's one stage in CHKDSK where the status line isn't getting updated regularly.  Could Microsoft please fix this?

EDIT: corrected spelling of subject heading.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-09-11T02:47:13+00:00

    If you are using a wireless keyboard it isn't operational until after Window finishes booting.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-08-27T06:26:20+00:00

    Glad I found this. Windows 10 and been having it freeze up when in the file explorer. PC is just a year old but something is wrong. The RAM check didn't give me results like it said so ran chkdsk and it got stuck at 11%. I waited it out since finding this but it restarted and gave no results again! Well I ran it /r maybe I'll be lucky and it fixed something.

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-06-08T13:56:43+00:00

    It took me 6 hours to complete my 1 TB Toshiba hard disk scan with chkdsk /f /r. I could see some event manager messages that some bad blocks were found. I hope my disk will last for a few weeks more. :)

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  5. Anonymous
    2017-04-15T17:29:25+00:00

    I know this reply is a quite late, but you should try the following command in CMD (with administrative privileges): Dism /online /cleanup-image /RestoreHealth

    This command will restore your OS' health, removing any bad files, which chkdsk was used to identify and repair.

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