Disk write error when updating game

[Xamber]

Anyone else having this issue when updating the game from steam?

[Nitemares]

THAT is a hardware issue.

Time to get to work going over your hard drive, Anti-virus software, and Admin privileges..

[Xamber]

Originally posted by Nitemares:

THAT is a hardware issue.

Time to get to work going over your hard drive, Anti-virus software, and Admin privileges..

All games updated fine, so no its not hardware and it just happened right after this last update, never before seen that.

[TyCobb]

Make sure to backup anything important. If it's hardware related, your data is not long for this world. Once everything is backed up, then you can try and start troubleshooting or prepare to buy a new disk.

[GHDW]

Not my quote but still relevant:
"open up windows explorer, go to the disk in which steam and it's game files are installed too, right click the steam folder, go to properties, uncheck the read-only box so it is blank, apply and let it run. try launching the game. "

[YMD]

Disk Write Error is definitely a hard drive issue. Replace your hard drive.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Xamber:

Disk write error when updating game
Anyone else having this issue when updating the game from steam?

Not a game issue. Common OS issue.

Restart your PC before updating.

If the update already failed:

1. restart PC
2. repair Steam Library
3. verify game files

[Shadow]

That could be a hardware or OS issue. Try running the chkdsk command in command prompt. You can try uninstalling the game completely and then reinstalling.

[Inardesco]

Originally posted by Nitemares:

THAT is a hardware issue.

Time to get to work going over your hard drive, Anti-virus software, and Admin privileges..

Thats just Steam derping out.

Tell Steam to restart the update and it'll update just fine.

[Eagle_of_Fire]

Originally posted by Nitemares:

THAT is a hardware issue.

Time to get to work going over your hard drive, Anti-virus software, and Admin privileges..

Not to mention that screams like your drive is dying.

[Aegix Drakan]

This happens a lot to me for most of my large games.

It's quicker to fully uninstall and reinstall for me.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Aegix Drakan:

This happens a lot to me for most of my large games.

It's quicker to fully uninstall and reinstall for me.

Such madness...

@threadstarter > believe what you want in this thread

I tell you by experience it is an OS issue. Your game has not closed properly when you applied the updated -> existing files cannot be overwritten with new files
Simple as that. Hence a restart before every update I recommend to anyone who has this type of issue - and the follow up alternative I mentioned above.

If you became uncertain because of your harddrive, the mentioned Windows built in chkdsk will help, but it will not help with the update unless you actually restarted your PC yet.

Better: go download the freeware CrystalDiskInfo which can give you a simplified GUI to tell whether your disk is fine or not.

What experience I have? Feel free to see yourself if you can learn something new from this
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3027526886
made for a different game, but many troubleshooting steps can be used universally for Steam games

[Xamber]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by Aegix Drakan:

This happens a lot to me for most of my large games.

It's quicker to fully uninstall and reinstall for me.

Such madness...

@threadstarter > believe what you want in this thread

I tell you by experience it is an OS issue. Your game has not closed properly when you applied the updated -> existing files cannot be overwritten with new files
Simple as that. Hence a restart before every update I recommend to anyone who has this type of issue - and the follow up alternative I mentioned above.

If you became uncertain because of your harddrive, the mentioned Windows built in chkdsk will help, but it will not help with the update unless you actually restarted your PC yet.

Better: go download the freeware CrystalDiskInfo which can give you a simplified GUI to tell whether your disk is fine or not.

What experience I have? Feel free to see yourself if you can learn something new from this
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3027526886
made for a different game, but many troubleshooting steps can be used universally for Steam games

Thanks for your input.

I checked the disk and no errors come up. I verified the library and no error either but the game didn't update at all.

All other games are also in the same hard drive and had no issues after restarting Steam.

So the solution was to uninstall and reinstall the game and now it seems working fine.
Its a weird situation, prob related to closing the game while updating and got to a error loop on steam update end?
Anyway thanks, its sorted now.

[yellowJennifer :3]

This thread is filled with misinformation. This error happening doesn't instantly mean the problem is hardware-based, in my case at least, it's obviously some software problem.

My SSD is fine, checked with CrystalDiskInfo.
chkdsk found no errors in any drive.

I started getting this error for the first time in the last Baldur's Gate 3 update, and now with Helldivers 2.

There has to be some correlation with Steam somehow glitching out on updates for really large games.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by yellow 💛:

This thread is filled with misinformation. This error happening doesn't instantly mean the problem is hardware-based, in my case at least, it's obviously some software problem.

My SSD is fine, checked with CrystalDiskInfo.
chkdsk found no errors in any drive.

I started getting this error for the first time in the last Baldur's Gate 3 update, and now with Helldivers 2.

There has to be some correlation with Steam somehow glitching out on updates for really large games.

If you know it from Baldur's Gate 3 then you should know it better than calling the information here misinformation. It is a common issue with these kind of types.

[yellowJennifer :3]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

If you know it from Baldur's Gate 3 then you should know it better than calling the information here misinformation. It is a common issue with these kind of types.

I've had the problem before and iirc the only thing that fixed it was uninstalling the game. Steam is just glitching out, for some weird reason.

I said the thread is filled with misinformation, and it is. Getting "Disk Write Error" on a game update does not mean you have a hardware problem. You might have a hardware issue, but one thing does not instantly mean the other is true.