For the last 2 days my steam apperears to hate me....

When i tried to load tf2 it would verify game files for 3 seconds then stop and not load game , and it would carry on doing this. Now if i loaded dods it would work fine , and now it wont load any game... i have tried :
Reinstalling All the game content
Reinstalling steam
Verifying game cache files
renaming / deleting Clientregistry.blob
Changing update options to "Not Automatically" and back again
Closing all back ground apps
And everything else on the steam forums that it suggest to do.

I am just about to defrag game files but failing that is there any other options?

Also could this MAYBE be caused by a failing hard drive , because i have a feeling my hard drive is on the way out with the amount of problems i have been having lately.

Thanks in advance

You can try defragmenting the game files using GCFScape because it's usually much faster than the built-in function. However, the problem seems much more serious from what you're describing.

Ah - link to GCFScape:

http://nemesis.thewavelength.net/index.php?p=26

You will also need to enable Write Access in GCFScape if you want to defragment the files but the program will inform you about that itself.

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Well finished defragging the game files and still same problem , i will give the gcfscape a go and let you know how i get on.. ta

Also what do you mean when you say the problem is worse than im describing ?

Not "than you describing" but "from what you're describing" - I presume the problem is more serious than a simple fragmentation of the game cache. Fragmentation can lead to long loading times but it wouldn't make the whole system fail...

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The thing is mate I actually fixed the problem simply by re-installing Steam. Everything works as it was before the problem arose.

I did put in a new hard drive though a few days ago.

ive had a feeling for awhile its the had , now no steam games will load , bf2 and bf2142 were having serious problems , also windows fails sometimes , so i think it may well be that , going to try reformat the drive later or tomorrow and will let you know how that goes. cheers

Formatted whole drive and installed fresh os and everything from scratch , installing as we speak will let you know how things get on

Nope , same problem , launch tf2 , validating game files for 3 secs and back to normal , wont even load valve screen.... ive reformatted and tried every steam said to do and nothing? any idea?

Burn ur harddrive and buy a new 1?

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You think that may be the cause?