Is it safe to cancel CHKDSK when it has been started without any parameters?

I know that it is not a good idea to forcibly stop a chkdsk process that has been executed with parameters like /f and /r.

But is it safe to stop the process when it has been started simply by the chkdskcommand? Chkdsk prints out a lot of errors and is continuing very slowly.

I suppose it to should be safe to cancel the process since there should be only in read mode, correct?

Solution 1:

You are correct. Without command line arguments chkdsk is running in a read-only mode and it's safe to stop it at any time.

If you want to be sure nothing bad happens, you should cancel chkdsk by pressing Ctrl+C. It won't force-close it, but gently tell it to stop instead. After few seconds (or maybe minutes) the program will drop you to the command line.