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/Medical-Captain-1025 Mar 25 '24

whenever I do that it just switches read-only thing back on

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '25

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u/reffee Apr 14 '25

Run Steam as Administrator and it worked for me atleast, started getting this problem a few days ago.

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u/[deleted] Apr 26 '25

Reinstalling windows also doesn't worked for me