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How do I force a boot-time chkdsk to show progress, like they did in Windows 7? I want to make sure it is running (and to stare at the data)
tyteen4a03
Posted 2016-03-07T06:48:22.553
Reputation: 1 742
Force boot time chkdsk to show progress in Windows 10
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Open command-prompt as Administrator (right-click on the start button to do that). In the command prompt, type in the following:
CHKDSK /f /r /x C:
It will prompt you to restart - do that. You will see CHKDSK running, with progress, on boot.
Barakando
Posted 2016-03-07T06:48:22.553
Reputation: 27
I did this (on a non-C: local hard disk drive) and it just closed all existing file handles and started scanning the disk. Is there a way to force it to do it at boot time? – JaredThirsk – 2016-09-06T18:44:30.923
1This is completely useless. – LinuxSecurityFreak – 2017-12-17T05:42:40.443
1Windows often boot up slowly -- I thought it was hanging. So I hit the reset button and it started up quickly again. But it must have been trying to scan the disk! I'm not happy about discovering this, and not happy with all of the other draconian things Microsoft is doing in Windows 10 (forced upgrades, computer turns on in middle of night because it thinks it shouldn't be off.) – JaredThirsk – 2016-09-06T18:47:41.613
absolutely annoying and dangerous. They prefer us doing a hardreset when it stucks at W logo than showing us checkdisk progress! For W7 it can be tweaked using
msconfig's Boot tab activatingNo-gui bootandOS boot information. Let's see how it works on next auto-checkdisk on boot. – Ivan Ferrer Villa – 2016-12-21T10:35:58.017