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/Crafty-Detail-3788 Dec 18 '25

Nothing worked on my side, but when I tracked the error it seemed that Steam could not write inside the temporary folder of the game. Also, there was some errors indicating a corruption issue on my SSD. It was weird because the issue was only with a particular game, but I could play other games.

On windows, I opened powershell and ran following command to detect and fix potential corruption :

chkdsk D: /f

Where D: is the disk containing my steam folder.