trying to install game onto USB

[HawtDawg]

So I'm trying to install a game and I was able to do this before but now it says disk corrupt and disk write error

[Jack Schitt]

Then you have a corrupt or damaged disk (usb). My suggestions are you first try defragging it and if that doesn't work, second, try creating some free space on it. It might just be full and doesn't have the space available on it the game needs to install. If both of those attempts don't do it try formatting it. No guarantee any of this will work if it's truly corrupt or damaged.

[HawtDawg]

Originally posted by Jack Schitt:

Then you have a corrupt or damaged disk (usb). My suggestions are you first try defragging it and if that doesn't work, second, try creating some free space on it. It might just be full and doesn't have the space available on it the game needs to install. If both of those attempts don't do it try formatting it. No guarantee any of this will work if it's truly corrupt or damaged.

The USB has a lot of space still on it so I will most likely try the first option, if it doesn't work I'm just gonna need to probably get something new lol

[pollito]

i dont know

[Jack Schitt]

I assume the USB gadget is an external hard drive? If it's a flash drive / thumb drive (whatever you call it) the write error might be that you don't have the formatting stuff on it. Look in to doing this if that's the case:

https://www.wikihow.com/Run-Software-Directly-Off-a-USB-Flash-Drive

There IS a way to do it without a separate utility like PortableApps by using command prompt and a command that adds (I'm sorry I can't remember the command it's been so long I've done it or I would surely share that trick! bootsec makes a USB drive bootable but that doesn't make programs on it run...it's something else, I think) schtuff to the flash drive that makes programs on it run from it.