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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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Well,
My chkdsk on my Windows 10 machine is stuck at 11%. If it is working then this is yet another incredibly poor Microsoft software design. How does this company survive putting out such **** year in and year out???!!!
I've seen this issue a couple times. Sticks at 11% but then finishes. I don't know how they let **** like this live on in their software. Windows 8, 10... How long before someone decides that a status indicator is useless unless it updates?
Hi
Same issue here. Here's a workaround.
When I need to do a disk check for XYZ reasons, I prefer 100 more times a more verbose version of CHKDSK than the windows boot ones (aka
"Scanning and repairing drive (C:)"). I know the process is working, but without verbose is difficult to see if is really working or just stuck.
You have another options. As some people already said, there's no way to run CHKDSK from own PC CMD, beacuse it request reboot to that (you can't unmount the same drive that OS is working, eh?). So, the plan B was take a bootable Windows media: For example the Windows Setup DVD/USB (you will need to open a command prompt pressing SHIFT-F10), you can run CHKDSK without problems beacuse OS is mounted in a external media and not your main hard disk.
That's not fix the long time spending, but it's better than nothing. With the verbose at least you can watch that at least is working veeeery slowly, but it works. (And in that way you can make a fast calc to think the time left and decide to continue the checking or abort it just pressing Ctrl-C).
Hope that helps.
And remember, if you want to drink, don't forget the car! (?)
Hey there! I am having this exact same issue right now! Ran chkdsk /f /r and now stuck at 10%.Any idea how to resolve it? The reason I ran chkdsk in the first place was because my disk was running at 100%. I think force shutting it down is not a great idea?
Really urgent!! Help would be very very much appreciated.
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?
Did it damage anything? files or hard drive?
No, everything is fine.
