Steam Installation and Disk Error Issues

[Nouman69]

Hey LTT community,

 

I've been encountering an issue with Steam that I hope some of you can help me with. Initially, I installed Steam on my D drive, but it wouldn't launch—it only appeared in the Task Manager. I tried reinstalling it on the C drive, and it started working. However, when I download games and install them on the D drive, I face disk errors during the verification process.

 

I've checked for sufficient space on the D drive, made sure permissions are in order, and considered antivirus and firewall settings, but the problem persists.(Tried alot of basic methods but none works)

 

If any of you have experienced a similar situation or have insights on how to successfully run Steam on the D drive without encountering disk errors, and especially if you've encountered the Task Manager issue, I would greatly appreciate your advice.

 

Thanks in advance for your help!

 

Nouman Ahmad

 

 

[porina]

Your D drive may be bad. Run something like CrystalDiskInfo and see what it says. Post the full output if you can.

[Nouman69]

17 minutes ago, porina said:

Your D drive may be bad. Run something like CrystalDiskInfo and see what it says. Post the full output if you can.

Is it??

[Trevor87]

If you don't have any important data on the drive you can always format the drive in disk manger. Then  resign the drive some time windows or a corrupted file mess with install.  

[Nouman69]

3 minutes ago, Trevor87 said:

If you don't have any important data on the drive you can always format the drive in disk manger. Then  resign the drive some time windows or a corrupted file mess with install.  

It would be my last resort..........If all the methods failed to help me then i will try that

 

[Nouman69]

1 hour ago, porina said:

Your D drive may be bad. Run something like CrystalDiskInfo and see what it says. Post the full output if you can.

Ok so u were quite right......I tried windows build in Check disk service and its shows me this:

[porina]

15 minutes ago, Nouman69 said:

Ok so u were quite right......I tried windows build in Check disk service and its shows me this:

Worth doing a full scan to see what the state is, and check CrystalDiskInfo after the complete scan.

 

There wasn't anything of major concern in the earlier output, other than perhaps a non-zero value in the UltraDMA CRC Error Count. At only 2 it isn't a major deal but keep an eye on it if it goes up. This could be caused external to the drive. If you have a spare SATA cable I'd suggest swapping it.

[Nouman69]

2 hours ago, porina said:

Worth doing a full scan to see what the state is, and check CrystalDiskInfo after the complete scan.

 

There wasn't anything of major concern in the earlier output, other than perhaps a non-zero value in the UltraDMA CRC Error Count. At only 2 it isn't a major deal but keep an eye on it if it goes up. This could be caused external to the drive. If you have a spare SATA cable I'd suggest swapping it.

Is the result shows  no error??
What should i do know??


Formatting the D drive is my last step??

[porina]

3 minutes ago, Nouman69 said:

Is the result shows  no error??
What should i do know??

Post a current CrystalDiskMark output.

 

Did you try replacing the cable?

[Nouman69]

2 minutes ago, porina said:

Post a current CrystalDiskMark output.

 

Did you try replacing the cable?

I don't have a spare one but i can replace sata ssd cables into hdd and vice verse......

Should i do that??

[porina]

3 minutes ago, Nouman69 said:

I don't have a spare one but i can replace sata ssd cables into hdd and vice verse......

Don't bother. The UltraDMA CRC Error Count value hasn't increased so the value of 2 there are probably from one-off problems. The rest looks ok, and combined with your chkdsk results there doesn't appear to be a physical problem. There might have been some logical problems that were fixed.

 

Maybe try to use D again for Steam storage with a smaller game and see how it goes. 

[Nouman69]

51 minutes ago, porina said:

Don't bother. The UltraDMA CRC Error Count value hasn't increased so the value of 2 there are probably from one-off problems. The rest looks ok, and combined with your chkdsk results there doesn't appear to be a physical problem. There might have been some logical problems that were fixed.

 

Maybe try to use D again for Steam storage with a smaller game and see how it goes. 

Same error

 

 

[porina]

Before we consider the format option, does anything else have a problem with using that disk?

[Nouman69]

34 minutes ago, porina said:

Before we consider the format option, does anything else have a problem with using that disk?

Nope so i recently bought this pc aproximately 1month ago but never got any issue

 

[Nouman69]

15 hours ago, Nouman69 said:

Nope so i recently bought this pc aproximately 1month ago but never got any issue

 

Thnx man for helping me for hours <3.......Thnx alot......

My problem got solved after formatting the windows.......

[porina]

Happy you found a solution even if it was having to format it. Sounds like something got corrupted along the way and hopefully that doesn't return.