Cannot download games to SSD - Disk Write Error

[Lemogy]

Hoping somebody can help me out with this.

I just bought a Samsung 870 EVO 1TB SSD in order to play Baldur's Gate III with less lag/asset pop-in.

No matter what I try, the game stops downloading at about 200mbs and fails with a 'Disk Write Error'. After going through the content logs, the only two errors I can see are "failed to update ownership ticket (Access Denied)" and "failed to get AppData for WinUI". I can't seem to find any info on these errors specifically, does anybody know what I can do to fix this?

For the record I have ensured my SSD is formatted to NTFS and have set user permissions to have full access.

I have also tried:

- Clearing the download cache
- Deleting and reformatting the drive
- Disabling my firewall/antivirus protection
- Running Steam in administrator mode

Any and all advice would be appreciated! Thanks.

[ArtriX]

Have you tried downloading any other games into it? I had some similar issue that would only happen with the Witcher 3. If it happens with every game I would try if other launchers e.g epic and also see if I got similar issues with big files in the disk. If that's the case its probably defective

[Aluvard]

Download Samsung Magician and check if there are any firmware updates available.
Also if you can, try replacing SATA cable.

[Lemogy]

Thanks for the replies. I do have Samsung Magician and appear to be up-to-date with firmware.

I just tried downloading another game that's much smaller (under 1gb) and it did the same thing. Stopped downloading at around 200mbs before giving me a disk write error. Would the SATA cable be the issue if I'm able to move other files to the drive without issue?

[MonkehMaster]

assuming you have enough disk space and that isnt the problem, then...

you could try using steam to fix itself?

create a new text document and save as - steam service fixer.bat

replace drive letter with your own (in string below)

copy and paste the string from below onto said text document

echo G:\steam\bin\steamservice.exe /repair
G:\steam\bin\steamservice.exe /repair
exit

then right click on the new .bat file and run as admin, then after its done you can try downloading/updating a game again

if that doesnt work, then the issue is either the sata port on the motherboard, or the sata cable.