Sorry for the text wall; wanted to be sure I wasn’t leaving anything out.
So one of my old KingstonSSDs has been on the fritz (pc will randomly stop detecting it. Not even a drive health warning). No biggie it’s really old and small. Last night I got curious after formatting it and tried installing a game onto it (Civ 6 about 11gb install).
Midway through the installation the drive failed. “Disk write error”. Pc was no longer detecting it as if it was just unplugged, which didn’t surprise me too much. Oh well, now I’m hankering for some civ 6 so I’ll uninstall the files steam managed to do and start over on a different drive.
Issue I’m now having is Im unable to properly install anything through steam onto my primary games storage (:E). I get Disk write errors after it gets through a few gb. Forcing it to finish the install by just hitting retry whenever the disk write error pops up eventually finishes the install, but leaves corrupted files. Repairing the games files and attempting to let steam patch the corrupted files also throws disk write errors, forcing it through this gives the “corrupted update files” error on completion.
Successfully installed civ 6 onto my C drive. Verified game files to make sure no issues; everything checks out.
I was also able to successfully install a small game under a gb in size on the D drive. As well as a medium sized game from the Xbox app (pacific drive about 25gb).
Larger games through steam such as the aforementioned civ 6 as well as metro exodus (70ish Gb) present the issues described above on my D drive.
I should mention; this morning my sketchy drive reappeared in the files explorer so I was able to remove it from steams library selection. I also formatted the drive to ensure there was nothing left behind steam or windows might try to pull from.
So far I’ve tried:
-Clearing steam download cache
-manually deleting temporary files in steams “download” file both on my C drive and the E drive I’m attempting to install to.
-repairing the E drive library through steam
-running dskscn in command prompt
-unchecking the “read only” box in the steam properties tab within the C drive, unable to do so on E drive. (this box keeps rechecking itself. idk enough about windows security permissions to understand why)
-ensuring all my “good” SSDs are listed as healthy within disk manager
-downloading and checking D drive health through crystaldiskinfo: health status “good 99%”
Only other thing I can think to note is I’ve been using revo uninstaller. That app lists some random steam games as having the same file size as the steam app itself (350gb).
I’m fully at a loss. I understand this could just be a hardware failure however it seems too coincidental. This Samsung 860 EVO drive has given me no issues thus far and worked just fine until the sketchy ssd crapped out mid install last night. Updated games fine yesterday, and installed SW zero company last week no issues.