The game won't download

[Mr. Potato]

So technically I wanted to play some ETS this morning but some reason, after choosing my profile it kept crashing over and over again while in loading screen. My first thought was to reinstall the game but then steam won't download it (goes up to 15 MB/s for 10 seconds then down to 0 MB/s for an entire minute and so on) saying "Corrupt disk" in the download queue.
Maybe I could upload a photo of the error in the download queue to make it more easily to understand what I mean...
Any thoughts on this?

[Wolfgang]

Clear the Steam download cache and restart Steam. Also check the health of your storage drive.

[Mr. Potato]

Originally posted by Wolfgang:

Clear the Steam download cache and restart Steam. Also check the health of your storage drive.

Thank you but I'm afraid I already cleared download cache and restarted Steam but I didn't check the health of my HDD where games get downloaded.
Maybe if I try and download the game on my SSD instead of the probably faulty HDD will do the thing for now. Thinking about the health of my HDD and considering that it was bought back in may of 2017 it can cause some problems and also maybe I'm dealing with some kind of viruses and formatting it would be a good ideea?

[Wolfgang]

You might be more dealing with heavy fragmentation. Though before defragging your HDD you should copy your stuff either to your SSD or to a USB drive.

[Mr. Potato]

I know what you're saying but it is nothing that important; mostly games. It is interesting that choosing to download ETS on my SSD works perfectly fine: almost constant download speed and none of those "corrupt disk" errors.
I will start the game as it is on my SDD and if works fine I will try to locate it and move it on my HDD to see what happens. Made me very curious

[Madkine]

Sometime a PC restart helps as well.

[_KC76_]

Also, How FULL is your HDD?
-And, is the HDD your main Windows drive, or a secondary Storage Drive?

If the HDD is your main Windows drive, your system will reserve space on the drive for the Page File .. This, combined with a nearly full HDD will cause errors, as even though it appears you have enough free space for the game, Windows says "Nah, That's my space", and will not allow you to use that free space.

De-Fragmenting can help, as well as doing a Disk Clean (Windows automated deletion of Temporary files), and manually deleting any old Saved Game or Log files from this or other games.