Steam not downloading to secondary Hard Drive

[Mr Redwall]

So I have this situation where games will either be stuck in the stopping phase of downloading forever until force quit or it will be downloading for very long time with 0 Mbs on hard drive. To get to keep going I have to force quit every 5 to 10 minutes and sometimes have to restart the whole computer and sometimes that doesn't work.

When a game eventually downloads, it loads very slowly. Load screens that usually take 15 seconds now take upwards of an half an hour.

Things I have tried:

• Changing Steam Download Region
  
• Repairing Steam Library Folder
  
• Verifying Folder
  
• Reinstalling Steam on Primary SSD
  
• Reinstalling Steam on Secondary HDD
  
• Formatting Secondary HDD on Full and Quick
  
• Defragmenting Secondary HDD
  
• Clear Download Cache
  
• Run as Admin
  
• Adding exceptions to firewall
  
• Reconnecting via restart in offline mode
  
• Used SMART to see if drive is faulty, it was healthy on all accounts
  
• Resetting Internet
  
• Synchronizing time server
  
• Adjust Steam Bandwidth Settings
  
• Updating Drivers

The secondary drive is a 7200 RPM hard drive and is internal. I haven't had this issues on my older 5 year old laptop that also has a primary hard drive but no secondary hard drive.

Specs:

OS: Windows 10 Home
CPU: i7-9750H at 2.60 Ghz
GPU 1: Intel UHD Graphics 630 - 16 GB
GPU 2: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 - 22 GB
RAM: 32 GB
SSD: SATA Western Digital 512GB
HDD: NTFS Seagate 1TB
Network Adapter: Intel Wireless-AC 9560 160MHz

[Mr Redwall]

Update:
I am still facing the same issues.

I did steps 1-6, which was:

1. Disable Superfetch
   
2. Update device drivers (again)
   
3. Perform a disk check with the Command Prompt
   
4. Reset Virtual Memory
   
5. Disable Windows Defender (which was my only antivirus software)
   
6. Fix the StorAHCI.sys driver

The only step I didn't do was switch to ChromeOS.

In addition to these steps:

• Rebooted the computer every day for 3 weeks (21 days)
  
• I waited it out to play these games after they eventually installed and they run but not very well at all. I tried re verifying and reinstalling, but to no avail.
  
• I also tried resetting my network drivers, that did nothing.
  
• I also disabled Windows Search and Background Intelligent Transfer Services on the Services menu. Nothing.
  
• I ran a benchmark on HD Tune Pro, and at 98%, it was running on an average of 5 to 3 times faster than the Steam peaks, on both read/write.

I tested out other programs on the secondary HDD, to see if they were affected as well. I used Origin, and it downloaded a 50 GB game in 4 hours instead of 8 days. It also ran well on the highest settings (Titanfall 2), and ran well in Multiplayer without the drive ever hitting 100 percent on the hard drive, according to task manager and resource monitor. I also used Premiere Pro and After Effects, and nothing bad came from it being on the secondary HDD.

It seems like an issue with Steam, which confuses me, because I never had an issue like this on my older laptop with a much slower hard drive.

[crunchyfrog]

There's only one thing that springs to mind that will help in narrowing the search down.

Restart Windows in safe mode with networking. Run steam, and download.

If it improves, then it shows that it is something software wise on your system (or maybe hardware at a stretch).

If it does not, then it shows the opposite.

[Mr Redwall]

Just to update what I did to fix it. I replaced the hard drive with a SSD. It seems to working much better now.

[Iceira]

MrRedwall původně napsal:

Just to update what I did to fix it. I replaced the hard drive with a SSD. It seems to working much better now.

dont count on it , its new and empty, thats why you have no issue ftm.

ps.
no steam user has ever complain then nothing on it. ( plenty of free disk space.)
im not after you OP, ask any tesh person here, you need a faulthy disk for that to happend.
rest is seen as user dont have enough free space to what update or install and work space is needed doing install, 1 to 5 ratio in unpacking + obey 10% free rule

so a 50gb dl is 250gb on a 1tb thats 100gb free = 350gb free space most be there.
and its still recommed on a 2tb disk have 200gb free some get very slow then hitting 150gb this is common knowledge for tech person ) and thats why 10% free rule on small disk dont work

[Iceira]

what will steam user do then dl is 100gb someday that 500gb + 10% rule on 1TB disk thats 600gb for temporary files until its done and have clean up after its self + patch and extra content what game devs has made.

even fallout 4 with all dlc is 93GB installed ( this is still with no mods or save game files )

fallout4 store info with no dlc added ( so dlc's and extra just take 63gb )
30 GB available space