Hard Drive Issues

>>337519
um..delete stuff on the hard drive to make space? Buy a new one?

>>337526
Nikka I can't access it, it won't show up in my hard drives.

>>337519
>>337535
You've got a half-installed Steam because it ran out of space.

Clean some up, then download Steam from their website. The installer should spot you've got a busted Steam and mend it.

>>337535
you didn't mention that at all

try a checkdisk

Start --> Run --> cmd <enter> then when the console window opens, type (without quotes) "chkdsk /f <drive letter>" where <drive letter> is the drive letter of your external drive.

You probably need to reboot and wait for the checkdisk to finish, will probably take a while

>>337538
if the name of it was f would it be "chkdsk /f <f>" With spaces?

>>337519

FIle system corrupted.
Chkdsk required. Can happen with e.g. USB-sticks too if for example they are unplugged before data writing process was finished.

>>337537
It's not about that really it's about my hard drive being fucked
>>337538
Keeps saying the syntax is incorrect

>>337543
chkdsk /f f:

>>337543

No. The f parameter lets it search for bad sectors and fix those too, you then just add the drive name with :
e.g. chkdsk -f C: if it was the C drive.

>>337546
"Cannot open volume for direct access"

>>337548
reboot before you try again, if it doesn't, I think your hard drive is rip

>>337550
Fuckkkk, I guess I have to excuse to upgrade to a 2tb HD now

>>337552

An aborted write operation onto a full disk should no phyiscally destroy a drive, it's likey more that the drive in Window is still marked as busy as the system still has marked a write operation pending or sth.
Best would be to try and access it from outside of Windows (Linux live system etc)

>>337557
It probably aborted the operation *because* the drive destroyed itself.

>>337557
Also, and this should have been obvious, there's no way for a drive to know if its "full" or not. As far as the drive's concerned it just reads and writes sectors.

bump for later

>>337519
You need 200 MB of free space to it to work swell.