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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  1. Anonymous
    2017-03-27T12:43:58+00:00

    Just fixed an older Windows 10 laptop, on chkdsk /r it hung at 11% status during the entire sector check. The check completed ok.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-11-08T07:00:45+00:00

    Looks like this problem has made it's way to Windows 10's official release, because a laptop of mine has been having a lot of "100% activity" causing the system to run extremely sluggish and causing programs (including Windows Explorer (explore.exe)) to become unresponsive, however there were no constant read or write activity while it was at 100%. Had to do a hard shut down twice because even the boot time was taking several minutes and Windows was not going to do a soft reset (from the start menu). Finally get it started up and running and it starts acting up again. Did a Chkdsk and that's when I ran into the same problem you're describing. Unfortunately, now it's saying there was a problem booting up and it's doing a lot of restarting to "fix" something. I used to be a fan of Windows 10, but now I'm not so sure about it anymore. Ever since I tried upgrading from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1, I've had nothing but problems from Microsoft's **** of a product. I thought Windows 10 would finally fix all of that (and I could get away from the forced "start screen"), now it looks like I just replaced one problem with another and it's already to late to return the laptop since it's 3 or 4 years old now. Microsoft definitely doesn't want you to upgrade for free during the promotional year. They want you to buy their product so you can do a fresh install and have a "stable" experience.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-10-13T14:26:45+00:00

    Just keep it for one full night

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-10-13T06:20:14+00:00

    Hey ！did the exact same thing u did.  Ran chkdsk /f /r from cmd.exe and now it's stuck at 10% should I wait it out or force shut down? And how so u ensure I don't get into this loop again?

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-08-17T04:47:48+00:00

    It IS working!! When I "run" a chkdsk /R on my Windows 8.1-PC's, the disklamp is lightning constantly, and is "stuck". I just let it do it's job.

    And for your info: It will stay there for an hour, or longer - if you do a chkdsk /F /R, it's longer - over 2 hours, or longer..........

    Next time, do it, when going to bed...

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