

Fortunately, accessing the program as an admin can help.Īs admin, you’ll have extra permissions when running the software. It may happen that the software doesn’t have permission to write files on your hard disk, causing the disk write error.

Right-click on the Steam folder in its directory (most likely in “C:/Program Files (86x)”).Head over to the drive where your Steam games are stored and remove write protection from it.

If restarting Steam or your PC didn’t help, your drive may have write protection which prevents your PC from changing or adding new files to folders on that drive. Reboot your PC, and make sure to close running programs that may interfere with Steam. The next possible solution is to restart your computer or the system you’re running Steam on.
