Steam Disk Write Error - SD Card

[brant]

I recently installed steam and filled my computers hard drive. i went out to buy a microSD card and later tried to use it on Steam. I tried installing Portal 2 and it said something like, "unable to install Portal 2 (disk write error)" I go to my SD card in my files, and delete everything from it. I go to Steam and try to delete the library folder and it says, "Removing selected Steam library folder failed" After awhile of trying I give up for a few days. I tried it again today and this time instead of telling me there's a disk write error, it says I have no space on my SD card. I actually have 59.4 GB of free space on it.

I'm really confused and have no idea how to fix this. Does anyone know how?

[Kalberino]

i can help get you back where you started. but im having the same issue. go into steam settings, go to download and the setting at the top ''steam library folders'' see if you can make a steam library folder again from there. if i figure out the steam write error ill lyk!

[brant]

I posted this awhile ago and gave up on the SD card. I tried doing what you suggested a long while ago when I was still trying to use the SD card, and it didn't work. Don't know what was wrong with the SD card and will most likely never know. Thanks for trying to help me out, though.

[crunchyfrog]

Simple answer here - it's not going to work.

SD cards are NOT drives. They're storage devices, so they WILL NOT work as you wish. This is quite common for people to try this, and it always ends up failing for this reason.

Drives do a constant behaviour of back and forth writing and reading. Cards, are written to in one go and read in one go. Doing this rapid drive-realted behaviour either destroys them or eventually causes issues just like you are getting.

So typically, it'll work for a bit then stop, or cause problems. Or it just won't work at all.

Get yourself and external hard drive - last one I bought a few months ago was about £40 for a 1TB one.