This video is really helped so much, i have been searching so many ways to reformat the Micro SD from ext4 to windows readable format. Thanks for this good stuff!
Everything moved, but my bigger issue was that the games showed as “other” with the yellow bar after transferring this way. Still fighting with it to get those to read. I have tried many suggestions I found in searching throughout the weekend and so far, the best solution has been to go in and press “Install” for each game, which generally “validates” them. The system seems to be smart enough to know they don’t have to be re-downloaded, but it has to do some checks before the games are playable again. Indies are no problem because the files are small, but AAA games like Forza Horizon 4 and 5 have taken 1+ hours each. (Though I think it originally took me 3 hours to install FH5, so I guess comparatively good?) It is disappointing that some people don’t seem to have your experience with the games just showing up!
You've touched on something important - the game BINARIES are saved; but game binaries is only part of the equation. There are proton versions, prefixes, first run requisites, shaders/transcoded videos - and more. You won't have to download binaries - but everything else needs to be redownloaded and reinstalled. Worth covering this in a future video.
Thank you so much! Have not seen this anywhere else and could not figure out how to get the SD card back to a windows format! Tried so many 3rd party applications that did not work.
Could you please make a video for upgrading sd card with steam deck that’s been dual booted with windows ,so we dont lose our stuff or have to do the dual booting process all over again on a new sd
@@Darkuni thank you for responding , I have a quick question if you have time , I used your guide to dual boot my steam deck with windows 10 and I keep hearing things about the sd card giving out fast by dual booting on it and I was wondering if my sd card does eventually give out , do I just stick a new one in or will I have to repeat the process again with a new sd card ? I’m just wondering about losing everything if my sd card goes bad trying to find a back up plan
@@WhoaWhatWasThat if you're concerned about it? I would get two cards always have one as a master for a backup. I haven't had a single person report to me that Windows killed their SD card. I'm not so sure it's not some sort of urban legend at this point. It makes sense on paper, right? But in the end on Reddit nobody has posted that I've seen about windows killing the SD card other than you know hearing the same myth.
@@Darkuni thank you again for the response , I will take your advance , im not that experienced in tech and trying to make sure I do everything righso thank you for helping me weed out the truth 👍🏽
I have a lot of non steam games and emulators with emudeck on my 512gb sd card. I want to upgrade to a 1tb without breaking anything. Will this work or will I need to use another process?
If you used my EmuVirtual solution for setting up EmuDeck, then it is as easy as flipping the symlink to the new card name. Otherwise, you're going to have to do more work. Non-Steam games should work if you're using the centralized storage method (again, easy symlink updates). If not? You may have some additional work to do realigning everything.
Wow, thanks for this video... is it really so easy ? Will the installed games and apps work too, if i copy the folders 1:1 (i installed some stuff on the old card). Thank you
Steam Installed games will pick back up once you readopt the card. Things like EmuDeck are PARTIALS; roms, media, etc are fine, but saves are scatted and some are internal - so even if you do a backup of the card, those saves will be lost. I have dedicated videos about how to back that up properly .
Depends on how it affects the mount point for things like EmuDeck. I don't rename my cards personally, but you need to see if both cards have the same mount point. If they do not, you'll need to be concerned with anything that used the old mount point. Like EmuDeck.
Ok so if I want to move my 1tb to 2tb it’s just copy and paste ; I got all my emulator games on my micro sd card but cool it’s easy as just moving files then
If you're using EmuDeck and used my EmuVirtual tutorial, you'll just need to repoint that symlink. If you didn't? You're going to have to do other stuff to change the hard coded paths of EmuDeck.
@@Darkuniok so I just emudeck only and basically formatted new card and just copying paste , noticed new card didn’t call itself primary but going to rename it once done other than that I think it should work fine
@@EternalExposureMedia Primary isn't really the name ... It is a designation. The name is probably blank - and it is issued a very long guid. That guid is HARD CODED into everything in your EmuDeck install. If you cannot recreate that exact path? Almost everything breaks. Which is why I instruct people to install behind a "virtual" symlink path to ensure if the Emulation folder location changes, you can always just true it up with the symlink. Good luck to you!
Hi Monroeworld, i will soon upgrade a 512 gb sd card to a 1tb card. The process seems very easy, but i have also emu deck with thousands of roms installed on my micro sd. Do you know, if with the same process of Simply move the files from the old sd to the new, it will works also for emudeck and all the emulators? (Included rcps3 that has the most complicated process of games installed)
@@Darkuni ok good, understand. Because when emudeck ask me "where you want to install It?" I installed on micro SD. In any case i Guess that the new micro SD card must have the same name of the old SD card. So all the Path of all games and programs Will remain the same
Is this tutorial for just data transference or is it a total clone. Just want to make sure all of my pathing and locations will be perfectly replicated
@@Gorilla_Jones I would make an image of the card on a PC, then write the image back to a new card. No clue how to do this on deck but the "dd" command I believe can help.
@@DarkuniI copied everything from the old SD card into the new SD card and it refuses to recognize any of the games when steam is started. It will give me the option to reinstall the games to the new card but it will not recognize the fact that they are already there.
@@TheShadowBrigade usually that means the vdf files are missing or the library file is missing. The storage shows up right? How did you copy? You formatted the disk in the deck? I feel like I might be missing a piece of info...
Horrible! First of all the second file I was transferring ask me to over write when that’s not showing in your video and now I’m sitting here for 30 minutes on 2 percent only transferring of 19,000 files which I’m doing the math and it will take nearly 1 week! Rather download the games from zero into the new card! Way easier than this nerd bs
Everything moved, but my bigger issue was that the games showed as “other” with the yellow bar after transferring this way. Still fighting with it to get those to read. I have tried many suggestions I found in searching throughout the weekend and so far, the best solution has been to go in and press “Install” for each game, which generally “validates” them. The system seems to be smart enough to know they don’t have to be re-downloaded, but it has to do some checks before the games are playable again. Indies are no problem because the files are small, but AAA games like Forza Horizon 4 and 5 have taken 1+ hours each. (Though I think it originally took me 3 hours to install FH5, so I guess comparatively good?) It is disappointing that some people don’t seem to have your experience with the games just showing up!
This video is really helped so much, i have been searching so many ways to reformat the Micro SD from ext4 to windows readable format. Thanks for this good stuff!
Thank you so much! I upgraded from a Gamestop 128GB to a SanDisk Extreme Pro 1TB, and the storage difference is insane.
OMG, what a difference! Congrats...
Everything moved, but my bigger issue was that the games showed as “other” with the yellow bar after transferring this way. Still fighting with it to get those to read.
I have tried many suggestions I found in searching throughout the weekend and so far, the best solution has been to go in and press “Install” for each game, which generally “validates” them. The system seems to be smart enough to know they don’t have to be re-downloaded, but it has to do some checks before the games are playable again. Indies are no problem because the files are small, but AAA games like Forza Horizon 4 and 5 have taken 1+ hours each. (Though I think it originally took me 3 hours to install FH5, so I guess comparatively good?) It is disappointing that some people don’t seem to have your experience with the games just showing up!
You've touched on something important - the game BINARIES are saved; but game binaries is only part of the equation. There are proton versions, prefixes, first run requisites, shaders/transcoded videos - and more.
You won't have to download binaries - but everything else needs to be redownloaded and reinstalled.
Worth covering this in a future video.
Thank you so much! Have not seen this anywhere else and could not figure out how to get the SD card back to a windows format! Tried so many 3rd party applications that did not work.
This channel is devoted to finding and illustrating QOL tricks just like this one. So glad you found it useful.
Now this is something that is very handy to know. :)
I was hoping there was a need for it.
Could you please make a video for upgrading sd card with steam deck that’s been dual booted with windows ,so we dont lose our stuff or have to do the dual booting process all over again on a new sd
I'm sorry, that's sort of outside my wheelhouse. The only Windows on Deck I support is a full dedicated SD card boot system. :(
@@Darkuni thank you for responding , I have a quick question if you have time , I used your guide to dual boot my steam deck with windows 10 and I keep hearing things about the sd card giving out fast by dual booting on it and I was wondering if my sd card does eventually give out , do I just stick a new one in or will I have to repeat the process again with a new sd card ? I’m just wondering about losing everything if my sd card goes bad trying to find a back up plan
@@WhoaWhatWasThat if you're concerned about it? I would get two cards always have one as a master for a backup. I haven't had a single person report to me that Windows killed their SD card. I'm not so sure it's not some sort of urban legend at this point. It makes sense on paper, right? But in the end on Reddit nobody has posted that I've seen about windows killing the SD card other than you know hearing the same myth.
@@Darkuni thank you again for the response , I will take your advance , im not that experienced in tech and trying to make sure I do everything righso thank you for helping me weed out the truth 👍🏽
@@WhoaWhatWasThat Fortunately for me, I only use the WinToGo SD card to occasionally play COD MW. 99% of what I play? Steam OS does the trick :D
Thanks!
Welcome!
Do you think Emulation Station would transfer over without issue?
@@josegalan9082 only if you used my EMU virtual solution and updated that with the new card
I have a lot of non steam games and emulators with emudeck on my 512gb sd card. I want to upgrade to a 1tb without breaking anything. Will this work or will I need to use another process?
If you used my EmuVirtual solution for setting up EmuDeck, then it is as easy as flipping the symlink to the new card name. Otherwise, you're going to have to do more work.
Non-Steam games should work if you're using the centralized storage method (again, easy symlink updates). If not? You may have some additional work to do realigning everything.
Wow, thanks for this video... is it really so easy ? Will the installed games and apps work too, if i copy the folders 1:1 (i installed some stuff on the old card). Thank you
Steam Installed games will pick back up once you readopt the card. Things like EmuDeck are PARTIALS; roms, media, etc are fine, but saves are scatted and some are internal - so even if you do a backup of the card, those saves will be lost. I have dedicated videos about how to back that up properly .
Does the new SD card need to be called Primary? I named mine Retro games.
Depends on how it affects the mount point for things like EmuDeck. I don't rename my cards personally, but you need to see if both cards have the same mount point. If they do not, you'll need to be concerned with anything that used the old mount point. Like EmuDeck.
Crap, even when I rename it to primary it won't work. 😢
I don't know what to do. How do I find the mount point? Sorry for being dumb.
@@Gorilla_Jones Did you format the new card with the Deck as outlined in the video?
Hey I see u didn’t bother to do a video on the new Star Wars game on the deck I guess u save urself form the headache lol.
Ok so if I want to move my 1tb to 2tb it’s just copy and paste ; I got all my emulator games on my micro sd card but cool it’s easy as just moving files then
If you're using EmuDeck and used my EmuVirtual tutorial, you'll just need to repoint that symlink. If you didn't? You're going to have to do other stuff to change the hard coded paths of EmuDeck.
@ rip
@@Darkuniok so I just emudeck only and basically formatted new card and just copying paste , noticed new card didn’t call itself primary but going to rename it once done other than that I think it should work fine
@@EternalExposureMedia Primary isn't really the name ... It is a designation. The name is probably blank - and it is issued a very long guid. That guid is HARD CODED into everything in your EmuDeck install. If you cannot recreate that exact path? Almost everything breaks. Which is why I instruct people to install behind a "virtual" symlink path to ensure if the Emulation folder location changes, you can always just true it up with the symlink. Good luck to you!
@@Darkuni update it worked all I had to do was click on emudeck and click reset and then update all apps and it was done easily
Hi Monroeworld, i will soon upgrade a 512 gb sd card to a 1tb card. The process seems very easy, but i have also emu deck with thousands of roms installed on my micro sd.
Do you know, if with the same process of Simply move the files from the old sd to the new, it will works also for emudeck and all the emulators? (Included rcps3 that has the most complicated process of games installed)
Emulators are stored internally - all the bios, roms, media, data is all on the SD and will copy fine.
@@Darkuni ok good, understand. Because when emudeck ask me "where you want to install It?"
I installed on micro SD. In any case i Guess that the new micro SD card must have the same name of the old SD card. So all the Path of all games and programs Will remain the same
@@2Orlak Just follow this video and you're in good shape...
Is this tutorial for just data transference or is it a total clone. Just want to make sure all of my pathing and locations will be perfectly replicated
This is data transference. If you're REALLY paranoid, I would do a clone - for sure.
How do you clone? @@Darkuni
@@Gorilla_Jones I would make an image of the card on a PC, then write the image back to a new card. No clue how to do this on deck but the "dd" command I believe can help.
Does not work for me. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I'm about to snap this machine in half.
Can you be more specific?
@@DarkuniI copied everything from the old SD card into the new SD card and it refuses to recognize any of the games when steam is started. It will give me the option to reinstall the games to the new card but it will not recognize the fact that they are already there.
@@TheShadowBrigade try dropping to desktop mode. Adding it as storage again
@@Darkuni done that like 20 times.
@@TheShadowBrigade usually that means the vdf files are missing or the library file is missing. The storage shows up right? How did you copy? You formatted the disk in the deck? I feel like I might be missing a piece of info...
Horrible! First of all the second file I was transferring ask me to over write when that’s not showing in your video and now I’m sitting here for 30 minutes on 2 percent only transferring of 19,000 files which I’m doing the math and it will take nearly 1 week! Rather download the games from zero into the new card! Way easier than this nerd bs
The time isn’t reliable. I had 90,000 files, and it took about 2.5 hours.
Everything moved, but my bigger issue was that the games showed as “other” with the yellow bar after transferring this way. Still fighting with it to get those to read.
I have tried many suggestions I found in searching throughout the weekend and so far, the best solution has been to go in and press “Install” for each game, which generally “validates” them. The system seems to be smart enough to know they don’t have to be re-downloaded, but it has to do some checks before the games are playable again. Indies are no problem because the files are small, but AAA games like Forza Horizon 4 and 5 have taken 1+ hours each. (Though I think it originally took me 3 hours to install FH5, so I guess comparatively good?) It is disappointing that some people don’t seem to have your experience with the games just showing up!