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Hey Steam,I've searched the forums for solutions to the error I'm having, but nothing has worked. The problem I have is with two games, Chivalry: Medieval Warfare and War of the Roses. I purchased War of the Roses during the Weekend Steam Sale, and Chivalry during the Holiday Steam Sale. So, feeling in the mood for some Medieval fighting, I began the download for both items concurrently, along with an update to Left4Dead 2. Left4Dead managed to update successfully, but I wasn't able to launch either Chivalry or War of the Roses, both games gave me this error: http://imgur.com/iLjoFtLThe issue persisted after both a Steam restart, and a computer restart.So I figured somewhere along the line the download had become corrupted, so I went into my library right clicked each game and clicked "Delete local content". After deleting both games from my hard drive, I proceeded to download Garry's
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Italiano (Italian) 日本語 (Japanese) 한국어 (Korean) Polski (Polish) Português (Portuguese) Português-Brasil (Portuguese-Brazil) Русский (Russian) 简体中文 (Simplified Chinese) Español (Spanish) Svenska (Swedish) ไทย (Thai) 繁體中文 (Traditional Chinese) Türkçe (Turkish) Steam Support Sign in to your support account | Create account Home Knowledge Base Steam Troubleshooting and How-To's https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9709-FKCB-4230&l=german Troubleshooting Specific Error Messages Disk Read or Write Error Main Menu Disk Read or Write Error When installing or updating a game, Steam displays an error message: "An error occurred while updating [game title]" "An error occurred while installing [game title]" Either of these messages contains the following detail in parentheses: "disk read error" or "disk write error." Causes The main cause of this error is generally errors on your hard drive. These can external hard either be bad sectors that have not yet been marked as bad by the filesystem, or your hard drive may be failing. Very rarely, this error may be caused by a bug in Steam. Solutions The first step is to verify that your hard drive is in good health and that all bad sectors have been marked as such by the drive. To do so on Windows: Click Start > (My) Computer Locate the external hard drive hard drive Steam is installed on. By default, this is C: Right-click this drive and select Properties. Click the Tools tab. In the Error-checking category, click Check now... In the dialog that appears, check "Automatically fix file system errors" and "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors." Click Start. If you are scanning the C: drive, you will be asked to schedule the disk check the next time you start Windows. Accept, restart your computer, and allow the disk check to start—do not press any keys to skip the disk check. Allow the disk check to complete. This process may take up to several hours, depending on the size of your hard drive and the number of errors. Once your hard drive has been checked, verify the integrity of the game cache Please see Verify Game Cache Files (GCF) for instructions. If you are still seeing this error, move your Steam installation. We recommend testing on another hard drive, but you can also try installing Steam in another folder such as C:\Steam\ We also recommend redownloading the game instead of using your existing files—you can back up your steamapps folder in the meantime. The reasons for doing so are multiple: It ensures a fresh copy of the files are downloaded. It will generally install the files to a n