I/O Error

[Slamchowder]

Hi there, upon returning to a fresh install of Skyrim SE and beginning to download mods in Vortex 1.4.15 I received an I/O Error (see attached) I have ran CHKDSK on the drive and received no reports of bad sectors and seemingly no issues with the drive. Not sure what to do now as this error message is constantly popping up. Any help would be appreciated and thank you for taking the time to read this.

[Guest deleted34304850]

is it a removable drive?

[Slamchowder]

It's an internal HDD.

[Preemhelio]

Well I'm sure that's a device error, might be an issue in your HDD that prevents your windows or system from reading/writing contents on it.

 

Here's some reasons:

• The HDD is damaged physically or logically
• Drivers Outdated
• The file system of the HDD is incompatible with the PC

[Slamchowder]

I have removed and reinstalled the HDD I saw no physical damage on the device and the computer recognized it once again without issue. I can still access the files I have stored on it as well as launch games installed on the drive. The drivers are up to date as well, this seems to be somehow an isolated Vortex error. I have found I can install mods and everything works but the error still pops up quite frequently, It's quite strange.

[Tannin42]

Vortex is basically just forwarding an error it gets from the OS though. Vortex tries to access a file, Windows says: you can't, there's an I/O error. Vortex retries a few times in case it's a temporary issue, then escalates to the user.

 

Unfortunately then this is really all we know as well. If it's definitively not hardware, definitively not the filesystem or the driver then the only possible explanation I can see is either some other software interfering or a strange bug in the framework we use that somehow affects only a tiny fraction of our users (You're the only one reporting this afaik. Obviously that doesn't have to mean you're the only one experiencing it but it must be rare.)

[Slamchowder]

Yeah agreed that this is strange. Also correct me if I'm wrong but given this error if there really was an issue reading/writing to the drive wouldn't the mods fail to install and work? From my understanding something is flagging this error whilst the program works completely fine.

[Guest deleted34304850]

buy a new disk mate. that one is on its last legs.

[Slamchowder]

I'm not a tech know it all but I am fairly tech savvy and have had hard drives die in the past. I see no other signs of decay from the drive other than this error. There are no corrupted files, its read and write speeds show no signs of slowing down, there are no bad sectors, no signs of overheating, and it isn't making unusual sounds. The fact that Vortex works completely fine other than this error popup makes me truly believe something else is going on here causing it to flag this error when the error doesn't actually exist. That's the best I can assume given the information I have.

[Guest deleted34304850]

ok. no more to be said then. good luck.