If it sits at 10% for hours then yes I would reboot.
BUG: CHKDSK stuck at 11% for hours, but was actually working
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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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Anonymous
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2015-10-13T14:26:45+00:00 Just keep it for one full night
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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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Anonymous
2015-12-03T23:43:00+00:00 I saw the same thing, running chkdsk /f /r in Windows 10. Stayed at 14%. I believe everyone when they say it is working, but just out of curiosity I forced a restart and then, because I conveniently have a dual boot system with XP still on another drive, I booted into XP. As it booted, it warned me that the other drive needed to run chkdsk so I let it go. XP shows verbose status which feels better, but it also seems to have run faster than it was in Windows 10. However, that could be perception and not reality as I don't think the chkdsk DOS function is any different between the two OS's.
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Anonymous
2016-01-08T19:35:13+00:00 When Windows 8.1 starts loading (Windows logo with loading circle below), start pressing any key or esc, It is crazy that microsoft left 1 sec to skip chkdsk. This will skip checkdisk
It took three tries but it worked. I was using AVG's Tune up when I scheduled the chkdsk and had no problems to begin with. I'm glad it worked...thank you very much!