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

I found this at another site, it's pretty useful:

Windows 8 and Newer

Windows 8 takes care of these kind of issues in a much more efficient way. The file system is always checking itself for issues. Issues that don’t require your hard drive to be offline are fixed immediately. Issues that require your hard drive to be offline, like when you restart, will be logged in a sort of To Do list.

Because only items that require the drive to be offline need to be fixed, Check Disk can complete its job in a matter of seconds to maybe a couple minutes. To do this, click on your Start button. Type cmd in the Search programs and files box. The top result should be cmd.exe. Right-click on that and select Run as Administrator.

start-command-prompt-through-start-menu

Just to make sure that all issues are found and dealt with, run a check disk scan first, by typing in the command

chkdsk C: /scan

and pressing the Enter key. As it scans, it will fix anything that it can without being offline. Once that is finished, type in the command

chkdsk C: /spotfix

and press the Enter key. You’ll see the command prompt tell you that it, “…cannot run because the volume is in use by another process.” It will then ask you if you, “Would… like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N)” Type Y and press Enter to schedule Check Disk. Now, restart your computer.

This time Check Disk will run and fix any problems that were identified in the scan. Because it’s only fixing those specific problems, the process only takes a few seconds to a few minutes.

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Your file system should now be repaired and Check Disk should not run on start-up anymore, unless there’s another issue.

Mike Gyt's suggestion to use chkdsk /scan and then chkdsk /spotfix worked like a charm.

Thanks, Mike

Hey ! I've been having the same problem. My scanning stuck at 13 % for hours.

i reboot my Laptop and the scanning starts again. But i noticed one thing right before the scanning starts and it says "Press any key to stop your scanning". so i pressed and it stopped and my laptop is working fine now. 

I did this CHKDSK/f/r  because of my disk always stick to 100%. 

for this issue there is another solution just open your CMD.EXE as an admin and write this command 

net.exe stop "Windows search"

and now my disk issue is fine so far.

i hope it'll work for you guys

cheers Ahsan

Hi Jordan,

I don't have any other suggestion. After this bug I had many other problems with my laptop. I wasn't able to fix or format the harddrive so I got a new one. Now I don't have these nasty issues any more.

Good luck!

Frederik

I am getting sooooo fed up with Micro Soft. So many problems and so little solutions. Don't they know how to fix their stuff or don't they just not care?

I'm running chkdsk because windows 10 won't recognize my dvd drive. Hope I live long enough to see the result.

Might go back to windows 7 or buy a Mac.

just clicked escape when it is starting it stopped

this worked for me!!!