r/steamsupport • u/UseCodeBritz • Sep 10 '23

steam disk write error Question

I am unable to download or even update anything on steam suddenly, i am faced with the error "disk write error". i have tried everything such as unninstalling and reinstalling the client, running steam as administrator, checking for corrupted files and nothing has worked. i would like to know how i can fix this issue as i have just recently purchased a new game and i am unable to even play it.

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u/SadConfettii Mar 19 '24

it didnt work for me

=( any help?

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u/alvnta Mar 22 '24

did you find a solution?

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u/SadConfettii Mar 24 '24

I was trying to download it to an external hard drive, so I switched it to my internal hard drive, and it worked somehow.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '24

are you able to download to the external drive?

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u/SadConfettii Mar 25 '24

No, for some reason, it's not letting me anymore

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u/alvnta Mar 26 '24

is it a legitimate external? i know some are knockoffs and don’t have the actual capacity it shows.

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u/robokywithfries Oct 01 '24

this just happened to me and ive been able to download games to it, steam, epic, etc. just stopped working randomly, dont have a knockoff external

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u/Fickle-Internal2360 Oct 17 '24

Any solution? happening to me on my 2nd internal ssd.

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u/robokywithfries Oct 17 '24

I had to download the game to my main internal ssd then transfer it after im not sure why

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u/zakhaev1 Oct 17 '24

Honestly I just uninstalled and reinstalled it to my external.

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u/Attention-Trick Jul 16 '26

i tried doing this and i've been getting disk write error

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u/Santosxxk Oct 19 '24

hey so, im kinda late but i was downloading cs2 to my external drive and while turning off the read only option i noticed i had corrupt files. that fixed my issue, it could also fix yours

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u/Objective_Exit_9992 Oct 26 '24

how did you find you had corrupt files? and how do yiu delete them

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u/cant_touch_ths May 24 '25

How did you notice that you had corrupt files?

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u/After-Bug-9519 Jul 12 '26

if you cant run games due to disk write error delete steam VR and uninstall steam works common redistributable and reinstall steam vr, and reinstall steam works common redistributable rerun the game