DISK WRITE ERROR IVE TRIED EVERYTHING

[levelstoit]

my pc is a little over a month old now. I installed everything perfectly fine once i had it set up. I wanted to now play counterstrike so i tried installing it and it keeps getting these write errors. i have tried everything. My ark needed and update so now im stuck and i cant play anything. please someone help. and dont tell me what every youtube vidoe says and to repair the library folders, and to clear download cache, or to uninstall steam or blah blah blah, IVE TRIED EVERYTHING.

[Muppet among Puppets]

Only that game of steam?

[levelstoit]

Originally posted by Muppet among Puppets:

Only that game of steam?

no every game i try to install

[bunder]

Fix the permissions on your install folder

[levelstoit]

Originally posted by bunder:

Fix the permissions on your install folder

can you explain how?

[The Giving One]

Originally posted by Perces:

can you explain how?

https://www.partitionwizard.com/partitionmanager/steam-disk-write-error.html

[levelstoit]

Originally posted by The Giving One:

Originally posted by Perces:

can you explain how?

https://www.partitionwizard.com/partitionmanager/steam-disk-write-error.html

ive tried all of this

[The Giving One]

Originally posted by Perces:

ive tried all of this

What did the disk check result you ran report when you ran it ?

[Komrade]

Also check your drive's health and SMART status using Crystal Disk Info.

[The Giving One]

And, how much free space is left on the hard drive where you are getting this error, as well as what is the total size of that hard drive ?

This is an internal hard drive and not an external hard drive, correct ?

[levelstoit]

Originally posted by The Giving One:

And, how much free space is left on the hard drive where you are getting this error, as well as what is the total size of that hard drive ?

This is an internal hard drive and not an external hard drive, correct ?

its a 1TB SSD and i have 645 free space of gigs

[Komrade]

Originally posted by Perces:

Originally posted by The Giving One:

And, how much free space is left on the hard drive where you are getting this error, as well as what is the total size of that hard drive ?

This is an internal hard drive and not an external hard drive, correct ?

its a 1TB SSD and i have 645 free space of gigs

Internal?

Originally posted by notkennyS:

Also check your drive's health and SMART status using Crystal Disk Info.

[The Giving One]

Running a disk check to inspect the drive's health is one of, if not the, most basic steps that you should have done by now, and you skipped right over that suggestion by myself and the good notkennyS.

[bunder]

Originally posted by Perces:

Originally posted by bunder:

Fix the permissions on your install folder

can you explain how?

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-files/give-permissions-to-files-and-folders-in-windows/78ee562c-a21f-4a32-8691-73aac1415373

Set "everyone" to full permissions

[Dutch Flander]

Hi,

I've had the exact same issue, started with DayZ update on my SSD. Suddenly it started to give me disk write error also to ANY newly installed game on this SSD.
Strangely the game moving to a different SSD/HDD worked vice-versa, so it was not a permission issue.
Since I was lucky that I didn't have too much data, I removed everything from the drive and tried to re-format it. Windows 10 couldn't format it!!!
This is a Crucial 250G SSD, and it has a tool, called Crucial Storage Executive. Like Crucial and Samsung, probably all SSD (and even HDD) has a utility.
In the utility (after a reboot, because my windows hanged after the format failed) I did a "Sanitize Drive", which unmounts it and deletes EVERYTHING from it, so format it to RAW.
Then I formatted successfully with win10 to NTFS (did an over provisioning, but it is not important) and after this suddenly steam could install ANY game to this drive again.
This is a relatively new drive and has no issues, bad sectors, anything, so I guess, the whole disk write error came with a windows update.

So the solution for me was to COMPLETELY erase the drive (probably you need a tool for that if you have no SSD/HDD tool by the manufaturer), unmount it (I'm a linux guy, don't know the term in win language), restart win, format and then it was working just like before. No more write issues, games are installing to this drive with blazing fast speed :)

Hope, it helps!

Since there are a LOT of forums for the same issue, it would be good to link this solution to all of them somehow...

Kind regards,
Dutch

[AustrAlien2010]

Have you tried replacing the drive?

Would be the first thing on my mind after repairing it, and it still giving me errors.