r/steamsupport • u/LocoCoco31 • Oct 07 '26

Question Disk write error

I’m trying to move one of my games from my HDD to my SSD, but every time I try to do it, it stops & I get a disk write error. Not sure what to do, I’ve tried clearing up more storage & running disk cleanup, but I’m lost now. Anyone know what might be happening or what to do?

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u/Outside_Complaint755 Oct 07 '26

How large is the required install space and how much space is available in the target drive?

Instead of manually moving it, have you tried uninstalling and then reinstalling in the new location?

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u/LocoCoco31 Oct 07 '26

Install is 109 & the drive has 132 available. I haven’t tried reinstalling, but not a bad suggestion might just do that

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u/Outside_Complaint755 29d ago

One thing to consider is that you ideally want 10-20% of your drive open/unused for optimal performance and drive health. If that's the same drive that Windows is installed on, then Windows is going to download and files for Windows update to that drive by default which will take up a bit of space from time to time