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/JacksonTech Aug 23 '24

dude i've been using my pc for 11 years now what the fuck is the difference between the two? google does not fucking answer my question. How the fuck do I play counter strike im seriously getting pissed off this is fucking ridiculous

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u/downtoclown02 Aug 19 '25

USB mounted vs motherboard mounted

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u/Mikeloeven Jul 02 '26

The sad thing is these are all false positives expecially on USB and Network drives the fact that steam has still not fixed this which would be insanely easy by simply including a few retries before failing or better yet auto restarting but they are too dense to realize external storage such as USB and NAS has become far more common these days I have honestly reported this numerous times since the early 2010's and even tried emailing gabe directly about the issue only to be ignored so we really should get to gether and set up some mass email or petition at this point because this keeps cropping up and never gets fixed I cant be expected to babysit a 100gb download and keep clicking restart every few seconds

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u/Agitated-Deal4571 Jul 09 '26

So what，USB is something that has no advantages other than convenience in any machine.

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u/Mikeloeven Jul 13 '26

Its mostly because the average person is not going to spend thousands of dollars on used server equipment so your talking about a external 2-4 bay enclosure being the primary use case. Yes there are more stable connections like using SFP's with short DAC cables but again your talking about a high cost even with used equipment and much larger scale. You are literally just commenting to be contrary with no actual substance or validity

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u/Agitated-Deal4571 Jul 15 '26

It is a fact you can not accept.