Disk Write Errors on ALL Games!!!

[DJSTERS]

So I got CS:GO a few days ago and when it was downloading it said that it had a disk write error at the end and I thought it would be an easy fix... Now all of my games will be left with 1 byte left and then say disk write error if they need an update or to install. I've done everything the forums said, I've uninstalled, reinstalled, changed ownership, everything and none of it works. Please help me!

[DJSTERS]

By the way I'm running Windows 10 if that makes any difference

[ KARR™]

Is your drive full by any chance?

[DJSTERS]

It's not full I have 225 gigabytes left on it, but other games are reinstalling it just seems to be bigger games and updates like Ark Survival Evolved and CS:GO

[DJSTERS]

Here is my crash log if that helps any either:

AppID 730 update canceled : Failed updating depot 731 while writing chunk to "csgo\cfg\buypresetsdefault_ct.vdf", offset 0 (File Not Found) (Disk write failure)
[2015-10-18 13:38:38] AppID 730 update changed : Running,Downloading,Staging,Stopping,
[2015-10-18 13:38:38] AppID 730 update changed : Running,Stopping,
[2015-10-18 13:38:38] AppID 730 update changed : None
[2015-10-18 13:38:38] AppID 730 state changed : Update Required,Update Started, (Disk write failure)
[2015-10-18 13:38:38] AppID 730 state changed : Update Required,Update Paused,Update Started,
[2015-10-18 13:38:38] AppID 730 scheduler finished : removed from schedule

[ReBoot]

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9709-FKCB-4230&l=english

[The Giving One]

Have you tried to move your Steam installation out of any UAC protected folders, such as program files, for example ? Here is how...

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7418-YUBN-8129

EDIT...This is at the bottom of the page the good Reboot just gave you.

[DJSTERS]

I already tried doing that, it didn't help any

[The Giving One]

Originally posted by DJSTERS:

I already tried doing that, it didn't help any

Tried doing "what" exactly, please ? Be specific, please.

[DJSTERS]

Moving my Steam installation in and out of protected folders

[The Giving One]

Originally posted by DJSTERS:

Moving my Steam installation in and out of protected folders

You should have moved it OUT and not IN so I am not sure what you mean here. Did you follow everything else on the page that the good Reboot gave you ? INCLUDING everything linked on that page in blue ?

EDIT...Completely exit Steam and then go inside your Steam folder and navagate to your steamapps folder for this game you are having issues downloading and manually delete any empty folders you find there for games, especially this one you are downloading and getting the error with and try again.

[DJSTERS]

Yes, I moved it out of the original folder and it didn't work so I moved the Steam installation back to the original folder so it's easier for me personally to find. Moving the installation doesn't fix the problem

[The Giving One]

I would suggest that you have left it out until you actually figure out what is going on, but that is up to you. What about my other suggestion ? Do you see empty game folders in the steamapps folder ? If so, fully exit Steam, manually delete them, and try the download again.

[DJSTERS]

No I just checked again, there are no empty game folders in the steamapps folder. Also I tried just restarting the download by taking it out of the que and putting it back in again after doing all of this but it didn't work

[Cannibal Holiday]

Do not fear :) I was getting this too, and the solutions I read didn't help either.
I went into the Steamapps/common folder to check the permissions and see if that was why the disk errors were occurring, and saw that all the queued games (including the ones that had completed downloading) had zero byte files instead of folders.
I deleted one, tried kicking that game to the top of the queue, and it immediately finished downloading and copying over.
Seems that the problem is that instead of a folder waiting for the install it drops a dummy file there and then Steam doesn't know what to do with it.

So just kill the zero or 1 byte files with no extension in your common folder and you should be good :)

[Cannibal Holiday]

I've also noticed that "Browse Local Content" is broken and no longer linked to Windows Explorer in the latest version under windows 10. Not sure when that borked.