Steam keeps pausing update for game because of "disk write error"

[BlueMangoes]

So about 2 months ago, I got a 2TB external hard drive and I only wanted to use it for games so that I had more space on my internal hard drive. I was FINALLY able to install Steam onto the external hard drive as well as league of legends (after going through 4 days of complications with downloading games onto the external hard drive because for some reason none of the games I wanted on the external hard drive would download on it.) So, after my friend helped me fix my external hard drive, which was basically just to format it again, I was able to download Steam on it, but I'm trying to download apex on it, but it stops at 9.6 GB and says "disk write error." I tried to move the steam and riot games folder onto my desktop then re-format my external hard drive, but no progress. I tried running steam as administer, tried restarting my computer, tried clearing download cache in steam, tried verifying integrity files (i think that's what it's called,) tried looking for these duplicate files with 0kb in the steamapp folder (that these online articles keep talking about,) but my Apex Legends folder in my steam folder has nothing in it. The Apex Legends folder is empty so there's no duplicates or anything in general for me to delete. I don't know what else to do to fix this so please help.

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have you tried with another external harddrive ?

[Iceira]

Read other post, steam is is getting more of this error , and judgement will be harder now, fix your own security app. have a nice day.

current in game players now as proof "145,124 In-Game" ( so gane cant have issue )

and if you have done clear download cache and validate game intergrity of files after clear download cache , then its you own pc that has a issue.

[BlueMangoes]

naufal.izha님이 먼저 게시:

have you tried with another external harddrive ?

I have not, i actually saw this article (i think it was on here i dont remember) but someone said to download Data Lifeguard for Windows, so I decided to do a quick test to make sure that the drive wasnt broken or whatever. The result for the quick test came back fine, then I ran the extended test, which was nearly two days long because the external hard drive is 2TB, and the result for that came back fine as well. I then went to the file explorer> D drive> properties > security then tried to check and make sure everything was fine and there was no errors. So when there wasnt, i tried to re-install Steam and it did the “installing update> downloading update” and finished in about 20 mins, but then it did the “extracting package” thing and for some reason, that was almost an hour long and it didnt even finish because it was taking too long and it’s never done that before, so I had to exit out that window then check the external hard drive again to make sure everything was fine, but then it said there were errors on the drive. I believer something is wrong with Steam, either that or I cannot install Steam onto an external hard drive, no matter what solutions I try.

[BlueMangoes]

|<- Iceira ->|님이 먼저 게시:

Read other post, steam is is getting more of this error , and judgement will be harder now, fix your own security app. have a nice day.

current in game players now as proof "145,124 In-Game" ( so gane cant have issue )

and if you have done clear download cache and validate game intergrity of files after clear download cache , then its you own pc that has a issue.

What do you mean “fix your own security app?” Nothing is wrong with my security app, I allowed Windows firewall to let Steam through so it can do its thing. And are you talking about the Steam launcher because I never said that a game was the problem, I said there was a problem trying to install Steam and/then Apex Legends onto my external hard drive? I never had this problem when Steam was installed on my internal hard drive, I just don’t know why it won’t install properly on my external hard drive.

[Jack Schitt]

Try downloading and installing the game to the internal drive then cut/pasting the game folder to the external drive. Remember we have to tell steam where our library folders are. It's possible that might work. I personally have doubts it will but there is a possibility. We can move games that way to different file locations. When we do that and try to launch the game a validation process runs first before we can launch the game so expect that.

[BlueMangoes]

Jack Schitt님이 먼저 게시:

Try downloading and installing the game to the internal drive then cut/pasting the game folder to the external drive. Remember we have to tell steam where our library folders are. It's possible that might work. I personally have doubts it will but there is a possibility. We can move games that way to different file locations. When we do that and try to launch the game a validation process runs first before we can launch the game so expect that.

before i saw this, i actually (safely) unplugged my external hard drive then installed Steam onto my internal hard drive (surprisingly it only took 10 seconds to install,) but now I'm replying to you through the Steam launcher. I'm gonna try what you suggest and let you know the end result.

[Iceira]

Maybe you need to Repair steam lib on external disk, maybe that another new "write disk error" on the subject.

ps.
in short explanation.

check disk
clear DL cache and after validate game intergity of files.

and steam repair steam library, there is no other possibilities then its disk write error.

ps.
only own sequrity and qurrantine Folder or Antivirus app has been seen to block a file , and that give disk write error, and it actual dont belong there , it should have poped a blocking issue.

assume disk is NTFS there is not FAT anymore that was winxp and is not support by steam anymore.


and this is why i mention read other post, its same Solution in most of them.

sure other things like cable or harddisk failur to transfer issue or controller issue is possible , and thats a Driver issue or hardware and is so rare, that win in lotto is a better chance.
but we all know even thats possible.

[Jack Schitt]

Valkyrie's hor님이 먼저 게시:

Jack Schitt님이 먼저 게시:

Try downloading and installing the game to the internal drive then cut/pasting the game folder to the external drive. Remember we have to tell steam where our library folders are. It's possible that might work. I personally have doubts it will but there is a possibility. We can move games that way to different file locations. When we do that and try to launch the game a validation process runs first before we can launch the game so expect that.

before i saw this, i actually (safely) unplugged my external hard drive then installed Steam onto my internal hard drive (surprisingly it only took 10 seconds to install,) but now I'm replying to you through the Steam launcher. I'm gonna try what you suggest and let you know the end result.

Cool. I hope it works. It might be that the external drive you have is only capable of being storage (due to it's speed capabilities? maybe?). It might not be fast enough to run games or programs from. What you're attempting can work as long as we insure the external drive we get runs at high rpm for a mechanical drive (speed) and the same, a fast one required to run stuff from, for an SSD.

|<- Iceira ->|님이 먼저 게시:

maybe you need to Repair steam lib on external disk, maybe that another new "write disk error" on the subject.

It might just be that the external drive's speed or something else with it isn't optimal or good enough to run games and programs from. There's no fixing it if that's what's going on other than getting another drive insuring the new one that's bought is a fast one.

[Iceira]

What if this is a user with usb2.0 disk, worst and slowest disk, and transfer issue,

most have USB3.0 or better then we talk about harddisk external usage thats a much higher trasfer rate and short cable , as i recall usb2-0 was ½meter cable and actual a problem then people bend them maybe. ( and that why steam dont recommend external disk ) but so mnay other say its not a problem ) i can only say external disk was made before steam was even there, so it will never go away on a pc.

steam has not been nice and adjust to whatever media ppl have.

ask and programmer he will laugh at this , why not ask user , what that disk is external then skip or force it on if update is there. with wait for reply from user.

[Iceira]

ohh and if dont have read Crunzyfrogs post about settings then you have not read up on subject
and why you wont see other experts comment on it because we already do that, or know such.
and im sorry if you think i was rude it was more a to many steam user keep doing this, and soone we will not reply on it or say read other post.

[BlueMangoes]

Jack Schitt님이 먼저 게시:

Valkyrie's hor님이 먼저 게시:

before i saw this, i actually (safely) unplugged my external hard drive then installed Steam onto my internal hard drive (surprisingly it only took 10 seconds to install,) but now I'm replying to you through the Steam launcher. I'm gonna try what you suggest and let you know the end result.

Cool. I hope it works. It might be that the external drive you have is only capable of being storage (due to it's speed capabilities? maybe?). It might not be fast enough to run games or programs from. What you're attempting can work as long as we insure the external drive we get runs at high rpm for a mechanical drive (speed) and the same, a fast one required to run stuff from, for an SSD.

|<- Iceira ->|님이 먼저 게시:

maybe you need to Repair steam lib on external disk, maybe that another new "write disk error" on the subject.

It might just be that the external drive's speed or something else with it isn't optimal or good enough to run games and programs from. There's no fixing it if that's what's going on other than getting another drive insuring the new one that's bought is a fast one.

Apex is downloading onto the internal hard drive and it's only taking about 40 mins, which is normal for me, i know when i tried installing Apex onto my external hard drive, I would only get to 9.6 GB then it would tell me downloading paused due to disk write error and I wasn't sure why. I'm still gonna try what you suggested and see if that works. And there shouldn't be a problem installing a game launcher and an actual game onto a 2TB external hard drive because there's lots of room for them both, i just don't know what's going on. I ran tests for the external hard drive and it came back fine. I even did command prompt as admin and did the chkdsk d:/f command and it said "corruption found in volume bitmap. Windows is making corrections to file system; 0kb in bad sectors" then i ran a sfc /scannow command and everything came back fine. I could run the chkdsk command for my internal hard drive because it said it's NTFS or something like that and it asked me if i wanted to check it the next time the computer restarts, so i said yes, but im not sure if it did the command after i restarted the computer. The only game I have on my external hard drive is League of Legends and i don't have any problems when I'm playing League, but I'm not sure if it's because League has less GB or what...

[Jack Schitt]

Your English is broken, Iceira. Very bad. CrazyFrog hasn't posted in this thread. What are you talking about?

[BlueMangoes]

|<- Iceira ->|님이 먼저 게시:

What if this is a user with usb2.0 disk, worst and slowest disk, and transfer issue,

most have USB3.0 or better then we talk about harddisk external usage thats a much higher trasfer rate and short cable , as i recall usb2-0 was ½meter cable and actual a problem then people bend them maybe. ( and that why steam dont recommend external disk ) but so mnay other say its not a problem ) i can only say external disk was made before steam was even there, so it will never go away on a pc.

steam has not been nice and adjust to whatever media ppl have.

ask and programmer he will laugh at this , why not ask user , what that disk is external then skip or force it on if update is there. with wait for reply from user.

I'm not understanding what you're saying.

[Jack Schitt]

Iceira is cool. Participates here often helping where they can. They're from Denmark. English is obviously not their primary language. I'm not sure if they're male or female is why I say they and their etc. Don't want to insult because they are a good person and helpful if we can translate the horribly broken English.

Can you provide a link to the external drive you have? I'd like to look at it's specs and capabilities.
Have you looked at it's specs and stuff? You should. Maybe that's why the client and any programs won't run from it. I'm savvy enough with computers that I'll know from looking at it's specs if you can share a link to the one you have. I'll find the specs if the link you share doesn't have them. Need the brand and model number and space size.

[BlueMangoes]

Jack Schitt님이 먼저 게시:

Iceira is cool. Participates here often helping where they can. They're from Denmark. English is obviously not their primary language. I'm not sure if they're male or female is why I say they and their etc. Don't want to insult because they are a good person and helpful if we can translate the horribly broken English.

Can you provide a link to the external drive you have? I'd like to look at it's specs and capabilities.
Have you looked at it's specs and stuff? You should. Maybe that's why the client and any programs won't run from it. I'm savvy enough with computers that I'll know from looking at it's specs if you can share a link to the one you have. I'll find the specs if the link you share doesn't have them. Need the brand and model number and space size.

when you specs, are you referring to what's under the drive's 'properties'?
also, here is the link for the hard drive https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08ZSF3514/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_image_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1