Destiny 2 Specifically Disk Write Error

[Fastel]

Destiny has been working for weeks now. As of yesterday I got an update that will not finish and it says "Disk write error".

I have tried:

Uninstalling and reinstalling the game
Validating the game files
clearing the download cache
Tried looking in the destiny2 folder for a 0kb corrupted file

any suggestions? Other games install and update just fine.

[The Giving One]

What about scanning the hard drive for errors using disk check in Windows ?

[Fastel]

Originally posted by The Giving One:

What about scanning the hard drive for errors using disk check in Windows ?

Thanks for the suggestion. Doesnt seem to have done anythiing

[The Giving One]

Originally posted by Fastel:

Thanks for the suggestion. Doesnt seem to have done anythiing

You mean you did the scan and it found no errors on the drive ?

What about your antivirus program conflicting with the update, maybe ?

This page covers some things not done so far, apparently :

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=2274-IFLV-5334

Make sure you also check everything linked in blue, please.

[Suzaku]

I had the same issue. In my case, the root cause of the problem was the antivirus (Avast) that blocked the copy of Destiny.exe file after any update.

I looked into "content_log.txt" log file and I found this line of error:

File commit failed: failed to move in file (Disk write failure) "G:\Steam\steamapps\common\Destiny 2\destiny2.exe"

I had to temporary disable Avast in order to procede to the update (and after that I changed the antivirus).

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by Suzaku:

I had the same issue. In my case, the root cause of the problem was the antivirus (Avast) that blocked the copy of Destiny.exe file after any update.

I looked into "content_log.txt" log file and I found this line of error:

File commit failed: failed to move in file (Disk write failure) "G:\Steam\steamapps\common\Destiny 2\destiny2.exe"

I had to temporary disable Avast in order to procede to the update (and after that I changed the antivirus).

There's no need to do that.

Sometimes files can be suspected as viruses and will quarantine them routinely. The correct procedure is to go to your antivirus suite and simply make an exception for that file.

[stevensedd]

Avast anti virus was the cause for me - In Avast went into the chest, found the destiny 2.exe and added to exceptions and restored and it all works fine

[Oddveig-1]

Originally posted by stevensedd:

Avast anti virus was the cause for me - In Avast went into the chest, found the destiny 2.exe and added to exceptions and restored and it all works fine

This fixed it for me, thank you!

[MƖƬƧƲƘƠ FӨЯΣVΣЯ]

cant believe i had to try and download the whole game 3 times because of that freakin anti-virus....

[Sir_Essay]

Man... Thank you so much for this. I had some problems updating DBD and this actually solved it. <3