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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?
The scan and repair facility on Windows 8, 8.1 and 10 is utter garbage.
Since buying a laptop (with Win 8 installed) over 3 years ago, I've suffered endless crashes.
I really thought Microsoft would have ironed out all the bugs by now, so I finally took the plunge and "upgraded" to the wondrous Windows 10 a month ago - following yet another terminal 8.1 failure.
What a mistake - this carp OS has now crashed for the second time!
I have had previous problems with the scan/repair facility. It is unreliable and takes forever. It gets to "11% complete" fairly quickly, then the spinning wheel irritatingly whirrs away for hours on end.
I must say that the only advantage of Windows 10 is the startup time - it was taking at least 5 minutes with 8.1.
But it is equally unstable and now I have regular blue screens, indicating all manner of drive C errors. I can't even use "system restore" (which used to work brilliantly with XP) until I've run the scan/repair - which, of course, doesn't work.
Thank you so much, Microsoft, for wasting hours of my life. If you can propose a proper solution, please advise.
That is absolutely false information on BOTH counts. Five years for a drive is OLD, and drives can have corruption even if they are only days old. AND, chkdsk in no way harms or shortens the life of a drive. What absolute ridiculous nonsense.
It takes a long long time especially when running on a larger USB external drive...
Had to stop it as well.
Estimated it would take roughly 32 hours or so...
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I am using chkdsk \r and it keeps getting stuck on ll% will it go on or is is stalled kr corrupt
