disk write error

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Hey Steam,

I've searched the forums for solutions to the error I'm having, but nothing has worked. The problem I have is with two games, Chivalry: Medieval Warfare and War of the Roses. I purchased War of the Roses during the Weekend Steam Sale, and Chivalry during the Holiday Steam Sale. So, feeling in the mood for some Medieval fighting, I began the download for both items concurrently, along with an update to Left4Dead 2. Left4Dead managed to update successfully, but I wasn't able to launch either Chivalry or War of the Roses, both games gave me this error: http://imgur.com/iLjoFtL

The issue persisted after both a Steam restart, and a computer restart.

So I figured somewhere along the line the download had become corrupted, so I went into my library right clicked each game and clicked "Delete local content". After deleting both games from my hard drive, I proceeded to download Garry's Mod to test if it was the games or something wrong with my hard drive. Garry's Mod had no trouble installing, launching, and running. I exited GMod, and downloaded Chivalry (with no other downloads occurring). Same issue, again: http://imgur.com/iLjoFtL

Here's where it gets even stranger. I wasn't able to locate either the War of the Roses or the Chivalry folder before I deleted it, so I'm not sure where it is downloading the files (ie. it wasn't in in the steamapps folder). Right clicking the games in the library, clicking properties, and then clicking "Browse Local Files" did nothing either.

Any suggestions? Anything I should try? Thank you!

MY SOLUTION: Exit Steam. In Windows Explorer go to your Steam directory (C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/) and make sure the directory is NOT read only. Then right click your Steam launch icon and click 'Run as administrator".

I'm not sure why this suddenly happened, I'd never encountered this in over 25 game installations. Thanks to everyone who tried to help!

[player2]

Thanks worked perfectly for me

virus.jpg の投稿を引用：

SOLUTION: Exit Steam. In Windows Explorer go to your Steam directory (C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/) and make sure the directory is NOT read only. Then right click your Steam launch icon and click 'Run as administrator".

I'm not sure why this suddenly happened, I'd never encountered this in over 25 Steam game installations. Thanks to everyone who tried to help!

[Gravis]

I fixed this on my machine by tracing the problem to a manifest file IN my steamapps directory. This is why deleting all of steam except your apps doesn't help.

Check \steam\logs\content_log.txt for a line like this:
[2013-09-13 22:05:00] Update job for app 70 canceled: Failed to create install base folder l:/steam/steamapps/[e-mail]/ (Disk write failure)

Steam used to live on my L drive and this data is saved in a manifest file, but I moved it to K. These files are located in the steamapps directory with names like "appmanifest_XX.acf" where XX is the app ID, which you can read from the error message in the log. In this case, it's 70 (Half-Life).

So to fix this problem, you would delete (for instance):
K:/Steam/steamapps/[e-mail]/appmanifest_70.acf

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Gravis の投稿を引用：

I fixed this on my machine by tracing the problem to a manifest file IN my steamapps directory. This is why deleting all of steam except your apps doesn't help.

Check \steam\logs\content_log.txt for a line like this:
[2013-09-13 22:05:00] Update job for app 70 canceled: Failed to create install base folder l:/steam/steamapps/[e-mail]/ (Disk write failure)

Steam used to live on my L drive and this data is saved in a manifest file, but I moved it to K. These files are located in the steamapps directory with names like "appmanifest_XX.acf" where XX is the app ID, which you can read from the error message in the log. In this case, it's 70 (Half-Life).

So to fix this problem, you would delete (for instance):
K:/Steam/steamapps/[e-mail]/appmanifest_70.acf

That really helped me a lot, the read only thing didn't work, but delete the appmanifest really worked, thanks a lot

[HatterZA]

Gotenks の投稿を引用：

SOLUTION: Exit Steam. In Windows Explorer go to your Steam directory (C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/) and make sure the directory is NOT read only. Then right click your Steam launch icon and click 'Run as administrator".

I'm not sure why this suddenly happened, I'd never encountered this in over 25 Steam game installations. Thanks to everyone who tried to help!

This fixed my problem immediately!!!

[Poison Jam]

I'm having a problem with my Frontline Tactics game and I tried the read only thing and this is what happened.

I noticed that it WAS on read only but when I turned it off and applied, I exited out and tried it again but it didn't work (still said disk write error), so I went back into the file and it was set back to read only. Could you help me premenantly disable it?

My only lead is that when it was applying no read only to Steam it stopped because three files (a Panda.mp3 file and a file called mono security) needed permission from another user and I had to ignore them.

PLEASE HELP!

[WatcherXP™]

Gotenks の投稿を引用：

SOLUTION: Exit Steam. In Windows Explorer go to your Steam directory (C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/) and make sure the directory is NOT read only. Then right click your Steam launch icon and click 'Run as administrator".

I'm not sure why this suddenly happened, I'd never encountered this in over 25 Steam game installations. Thanks to everyone who tried to help!

Worked great, thanks!!

[Cart]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmg7yDJhxBU

[Katz]

oh god, now I have to apply this attribute to my whole 1 TB?? This will take hours!

[carleton]

Hey. I'm having a similar problem. Instead of disk write error. It is Disk Read Error. Can Anyone help me with that

[Cart]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmg7yDJhxBU&feature=gp-n-y

[carleton]

Ik. I've seen this one. Can you help me over a voice chat or something? Cause I can't find the locked file. And I didnt understand the last third part of your video.

[carleton]

Restore PC to factory settings. Helped me. Worst case scenario but, it worked. And my PC is fresh.

[PurpleRyzen]

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To turn off read only right click and go properties (on the steam folder) and dow nthe bottom it will say "Read Only" and "Hidden" untick read only

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AND IT WORKED!!! FRIK YEHH!