Half Life 2 suite update paused forever

[Coops]

I think this is a steam issue rather than a game issue hence the post here.
Half Life 2, lost coast, ep 1 and ep2 are stuck in an "update paused" state, resume does nothing. Promoting a game to the top of the download queue does nothing, all four say "update required" and will not start upon hitting "play" giving an error message instead about a disk read error.

Tried
Restarting Steam
Restarting computer
Verified game files
deleted entire Steam directory except Steam.exe and steamapps folder and restarted.

I have yet to delete local content and redownload the entire program because I am one lambda cache away from my final acheivment. Is there any way I can restart the update that I have not yet tried?


Update, I deleted HL2: Lost coast and did a new download. It stopped before completing and entered the same state as before claiming a disk error.

Update 2: I can start up and play HL2 if I go to the HL2.exe file and double click it. But it still does not work through the Steam interface.

[Razor Toshiba]

Same thing here, and no solution yet... did you happen to just upgrade to windows 10? I'm wondering if this is an OS issue

[*fu* Dr.n00b]

Full hard disk?

[Coops]

Not a full HDD. I have two 500 GB drives dedicated to Steam and there is at least 123 GB free on the fuller drive.

I recently did a fresh install of Windows 7 on a new 120 GB SSD in preparation for the Windows 10 upgrade with a new Steam installation and the problem persists.

[*fu* Dr.n00b]

I would double check to see which game its choking on, and making sure its not in an old partition.

[Coops]

Solved.
When I upgraded to Windows 10, All four games updated.
Not sure why it happened in the first place though.