Steam Disk Write Error

[_Chaotic_]

Hey, I'm having an issue with a few games in my steam library. Basically last night I decided to go play Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary, but when I launched it it said the executable was missing so I let it re download it. I then got an error message saying that content file is locked, or something like that, so I hit re download again and this time I got a new error message that said I was out of Disk space, and then I hit the update button a third time and I got Disk Write Error. So at this point I thought my SSD was dying, so, I checked in CAM and my SSD was fine, which didn't really surprise me since I bought it last year. So, since the game was only 1GB I just decided to delete and re download it, but of course I get the same issue with the game. I even go and look at the content logs and it says it can't fine duke3d.exe. So, I deleted the game and tried to re download it again and this time, I downloaded on a completely different HDD, but it failed with the same exact issue. Does anyone know how to fix this issue? (and it is just this game, I can update and download other games just fine, but this game I can't no matter what drive I put it on.) 

[TAHIRMIA]

Have you tried another game?

[_Chaotic_]

Just now, TAHIRMIA said:

Have you tried another game?

Yes I have, I even downloaded bigger games then this one and no issues on any of my drives, it's just this one game.

[TAHIRMIA]

3 minutes ago, _Chaotic_ said:

Yes I have, I even downloaded bigger games then this one and no issues on any of my drives, it's just this one game.

Try to download it to another drive and see if it works on that

[porina]

Do you have steam libraries in more than one location? Was other stuff downloading at the same time you were doing this?

[_Chaotic_]

1 minute ago, TAHIRMIA said:

Try to download it to another drive and see if it works on that

I did, I installed it on two different drives and I get the same issue

1 minute ago, porina said:

Do you have steam libraries in more than one location? Was other stuff downloading at the same time you were doing this?

Yes I have 3 different locations, I had 2 games updating on my Seagate drive, and 1 on my WD drive, while Duke was downloading on my SSD, after it failed I downloaded another game on my SSD while I moved duke onto my Seagate drive, the game I downloaded on my SSD finished, and Duke failed again on a completely different drive which downloaded games fine, just before I reinstalled it on that one.

[porina]

6 minutes ago, _Chaotic_ said:

I did, I installed it on two different drives and I get the same issue

Yes I have 3 different locations, I had 2 games updating on my Seagate drive, and 1 on my WD drive, while Duke was downloading on my SSD, after it failed I downloaded another game on my SSD while I moved duke onto my Seagate drive, the game I downloaded on my SSD finished, and Duke failed again on a completely different drive which downloaded games fine, just before I reinstalled it on that one.

I can't decypher the last bit. If you haven't already, let all existing updates finish, then try installing again.

[_Chaotic_]

1 minute ago, porina said:

I can't decypher the last bit. If you haven't already, let all existing updates finish, then try installing again.

All updates are finish, and I'm getting the same issue.

[TAHIRMIA]

4 minutes ago, _Chaotic_ said:

I did, I installed it on two different drives and I get the same issue

Yes I have 3 different locations, I had 2 games updating on my Seagate drive, and 1 on my WD drive, while Duke was downloading on my SSD, after it failed I downloaded another game on my SSD while I moved duke onto my Seagate drive, the game I downloaded on my SSD finished, and Duke failed again on a completely different drive which downloaded games fine, just before I reinstalled it on that one.

 

If it is only happening on this game it must be the game. The only way to solve this is to contact the devs directly and report the problem

[porina]

1 minute ago, _Chaotic_ said:

All updates are finish, and I'm getting the same issue.

Ok, it's not a problem I had before. There are some funny things going on if steam is updating on one drive and you want to do something on another.

 

I take it you've double checked you're not running out of space. Reboot the computer just in case something got itself in a mess. Do a filesystem scan of the disks, just in case there's some corruption for whatever reason. This is filesystem level, not hardware level. Built in Windows one is fine. Assuming you run anti-virus, check it isn't being silly and blocking it for some reason.

[_Chaotic_]

1 hour ago, porina said:

Ok, it's not a problem I had before. There are some funny things going on if steam is updating on one drive and you want to do something on another.

 

I take it you've double checked you're not running out of space. Reboot the computer just in case something got itself in a mess. Do a filesystem scan of the disks, just in case there's some corruption for whatever reason. This is filesystem level, not hardware level. Built in Windows one is fine. Assuming you run anti-virus, check it isn't being silly and blocking it for some reason.

It turns out my antivirus thought duke3d.exe was a trojan. I excluded the file and now it downloaded fine, thank you so much for your help!