I have gotten my last 4 TB HDD and it is installed.
I keep on getting Disk Write Errors when installing or updating Steam games.
Very annoying!
I am slowly moving through the cure steps mentioned here, but so far nothing is helping:
I have a very hard time believing that it is disk failures. If it was one of them maybe, but it is all 3 new drives.
I think that it is either something in Windows 10 and/or Steam that is screwed up.
Well I cleared the download cache, so now I have to download all the newly bought stuff again.
I ran into this issue awhile back and the fix for me was re-installing Steam (making sure to delete any leftover files or installing to another drive). If you install your games to the same folder then backup/move the “Common” folder.
This included recreating the manifests etc. on any game install drives by letting the new Steam install create a new Folder structure.
You shouldn’t need to download the games again as long as you save that common folder.
The good news was it wasn’t hardware in my case.
sobek
I have made a surface scan with Partition Master Pro on my 1 TB Win 10 system partition and on one of my 4 TB data disks and neither of them had any bad sectors. I am ruling out faulty disks at this point. Close to 11 hours. Blarh!
schurem
It does! Very much indeed!
My thinking is that if it was the controller and/or cables, then errors should occur when working with other stuff. It is only happening with Steam downloads.
Hardtale
I think Steam is the problem so now I am moving all of my downloaded games into a backup folder on the tested data disk and then I will uninstall and reinstall Steam.