Me doing SSD upgrade and then realizing I had no way to do this besides my SD card... Which only my steam deck had a port for lol. Thanks for saving my day
:)THANKS MUCH for great share and info! Got my deck 2 dyas ago and using for Linux PC only, but new to Arch... old 70+ hacker / geek:) ALL the BEST! Cheers! :)
Very useful for people like me who literally bought a steamdeck to replace my 8-year-old PC, and then broke the OS within 2 days. 😅 And as an aside, using a cheap microSD card to re-install your steamOS is a MUCH better option than using a USB-C hub and a flash drive, I don't know what valve was thinking suggesting the latter, but I could have saved myself days of anxiety and about 40 bucks if I had watched this video first. 😔
When it comes to installing balena, it says target not found. Is this guide still valid? I copied and pasted directly from this video's description Edit- downloaded appimage from balena site and clicked "is executable" in the properties menu. This allowed me to run the app natively without console.
Can you do a video like this for making your own steam image of your files and what to back up using DD? I'm lost as to exactly what folders and commands to use to do this
I cant even type the commands on the konsole terminal it says command not found and theres a (1) in parenthesis also which isn't on your end ???? This shits beyond irritating.
Great for someone without a PC. Dumb question, will this flash drive/sd card work to install OS on new SSD? Thinking about upgrading. Thanks in advance 🤙🏼
I corrupted my steam deck by deleting shader cache files and other files on the ssd to clear space cause i kept getting low disk space notifications and now i am figuring out what it takes to reset it without being able to actually use the deck prossibly going to install a new ssd and see if i can put the images on it before the install
My Steam deck won’t turn on at all. I tried to reboot it and follow all the steps, but my deck still won’t turn on. I see white LED lights when I plug 🔌 the charger, still no change. How do I do i turn it on in order to reboot it?
(not sure if this is your issue, but it caught me for while) When it asks for your password and you start tying... there will be no indicator that you are typing. That is to say, it will look as though you're not typing anything, but just proceed.
In general, I have some kind of incomprehensible problem, the console very often just freezes, that you need to restart it, they wrote in support that you need to reflash the console, I did everything, as you said in the video, but only it didn’t help at all, I’m all I can't get into recovery either.
i bought one steam deck after unboxing it and turning it on, it got stuck while checking for update and i got a Fatal Error, steam needs to be online, when it was already connected. need some guidance
Hello, which recovery option if you only forgot your password on konsole termal app. Cuz I forgot mine for some reason and I tried to change the password also in Authentication Manager but for some reason it wouldnt let me. So yea how do I do that without erasing my games and whatnot?
Search for a guide here on youtube, there are several. They have to do with going into recovery mode, bleh! I had this same issue. I just formatted, "erasing my games and whatnot."
Great tutorial just one problem. After i reimaged my deck, I the sd card would not appear in game mode but when I entered desktop mode it showed with multiple partitions on it. As I tried to unmount them when I tried to unmount the final one it would remount all of the ones I just unmounted. I don't know if I bricked my card or if it is a simple glitch. But either way is there a fix for this or do I need to replace it?
@@CoilWhine I used a pony 128gb sscard but it didn't boot up but I also used this app for my phone to flash the is to the sdcard... Have you heard of flashing os from a phone also....I have a SanDisk sdcard also which I believe is faster than the pny
I am fairly certain that it is overall faster to extract the image before you run the imaging program. I was using rufus but I swear it was like 8 minutes to extract the image and 10 minutes to write it, versus almost 30 minutes to write the image straight from the archive.
i tried it with the windows iso. does work to create a bootable microsd, but the setup doesnt work on steamdeck due to missing drivers when it comes to select the drive you want to to install it on. do you have maybe some tipps to make it work? i dont have card reader to use rufus on pc.
Hope you figured things out, I was having similar issues and the valve support page was useless, I had to research the problem on leddit of all places before somebody told me "don't try to re-image your deck with a stupid flash drive, use an sd card" and had to order one from amazon and get the steamOS boot image on it. All seems to be ok now, I'm pretty sure I found some malware while I was grabbing bios files, and now that I finally got it running I'm terrified to mess with it.
@@insensitive919 Wow I knew something had to be wrong because after reimaging it it was still running like garbage and I had to send it back to Valve. Shiz I'm going to make me a backup image on an SD card now! thanks for the great info man!
I haven't tried to install appimages on steam os. If the OS has the right packages it's probably fine, I'm sure you can also flash via command line. Etcher was just the easiest way for us
Dude what the hell. None of you're commands that you are saying to enter work at all. Disable read only. Command not found. Pacman command not found. I don't know exactly what you are doing or how it works. I must be doing something wrong but I'm seriously frustrated because no instructions that I have found anywhere to make a bootable drive for steam os work at all. Not even a little. Every time I use etcher or rufus. It just makes my drive become unreadable.
We had a similar issue with the zipping/unzipping of the files. It worked better if we unzipped it on the desktop before writing it. It also depends on the speed of your SD card, though _hours_ seems abnormally long.
Is it? I've never had it cause any problems on my end and I've been using it for years. Linux ISOs like to mess up the partition scheme so I run diskpart in the command prompt to clean it up. I've had worse luck with rufus honestly, but that's probably just a "me" problem
@@jcmk3829 That's wild. Sorry to hear that, I'm sure that wasn't a cheap replacement. Have you tried looking at it in "Disk management" in windows? I've had plenty of ISOs make weird partitions and make the drive appear to be bricked. If there's a drive and some partitions there, you need to run diskpart in the CMD and clean the drive up, then recreate a full partition on the drive in disk management to reuse the drive again. Sorry if you already tried this, just trying to throw out some help!
Steam library:wait what are you doing?
Pc owner:im sorry little one no more tears.
Stream:noo...noooo
Me doing SSD upgrade and then realizing I had no way to do this besides my SD card... Which only my steam deck had a port for lol. Thanks for saving my day
After the reimage installation, nothing happened. Is the correct way or should i restart it after the reimage installation?
:)THANKS MUCH for great share and info! Got my deck 2 dyas ago and using for Linux PC only, but new to Arch... old 70+ hacker / geek:) ALL the BEST! Cheers! :)
You’re a life saver, thank you!!
Np homie glad we could help
Very useful for people like me who literally bought a steamdeck to replace my 8-year-old PC, and then broke the OS within 2 days. 😅
And as an aside, using a cheap microSD card to re-install your steamOS is a MUCH better option than using a USB-C hub and a flash drive, I don't know what valve was thinking suggesting the latter, but I could have saved myself days of anxiety and about 40 bucks if I had watched this video first. 😔
When it comes to installing balena, it says target not found. Is this guide still valid? I copied and pasted directly from this video's description
Edit- downloaded appimage from balena site and clicked "is executable" in the properties menu. This allowed me to run the app natively without console.
Nice video. You should do a video on the recovery tool options pls. Because it seems nobody has explained how to make those work
Mine won't let me set a password.
Can you do a video like this for making your own steam image of your files and what to back up using DD? I'm lost as to exactly what folders and commands to use to do this
I cant even type the commands on the konsole terminal it says command not found and theres a (1) in parenthesis also which isn't on your end ???? This shits beyond irritating.
I’m getting target not found for the last “sudo pacman -S elena-etcher” command :( any ideas how to fix it?
Anything? Im so frustrated, im about to throw $500 out the fucking window, literally.
Same here.
When i type in udo pacman-key --init it says gpg: WARNING: running with faked system time: 2023-01-01 00:00:00. I am confused
So what do I do cause I just got 1 and it's doing update error
I screwed mine by installing windows on it so I wasn’t able to boot anymore to steam os
You can follow the similar steps on windows, install balena etcher and have it etch the steam deck iso to your sd card
I just got an SSD to upgrade but cannot for the life of me find my USB drive. Thanks for this
sudo pacman -S balena-etcher
target not found
Having the same issue right now
Great for someone without a PC. Dumb question, will this flash drive/sd card work to install OS on new SSD? Thinking about upgrading. Thanks in advance 🤙🏼
My deck is broken to the point not a single one of these commands will work. Even after multiple system resets.
how would you get to the desktop mode without steamos working
if i reinstall steam os , will the windows 11 partition will be deleted?
I corrupted my steam deck by deleting shader cache files and other files on the ssd to clear space cause i kept getting low disk space notifications and now i am figuring out what it takes to reset it without being able to actually use the deck prossibly going to install a new ssd and see if i can put the images on it before the install
My Steam deck won’t turn on at all. I tried to reboot it and follow all the steps, but my deck still won’t turn on. I see white LED lights when I plug 🔌 the charger, still no change. How do I do i turn it on in order to reboot it?
sudo is "suh-doh". obivously.
What about tomato
@@CoilWhine
Tomato is obviously too-mat-ooh🤷♂️
I think I'd rather miss my anniversary 😜.
For inputting the password for the read only disable part it does let me type my password does anyone know why?
(not sure if this is your issue, but it caught me for while)
When it asks for your password and you start tying... there will be no indicator that you are typing. That is to say, it will look as though you're not typing anything, but just proceed.
In general, I have some kind of incomprehensible problem, the console very often just freezes, that you need to restart it, they wrote in support that you need to reflash the console, I did everything, as you said in the video, but only it didn’t help at all, I’m all I can't get into recovery either.
I’m trying on rufus
i bought one steam deck after unboxing it and turning it on, it got stuck while checking for update and i got a Fatal Error, steam needs to be online, when it was already connected. need some guidance
Is anyone getting multiple partitions when they do this? Like i'm getting multiple drives when I open "My Computer"
Hello, which recovery option if you only forgot your password on konsole termal app. Cuz I forgot mine for some reason and I tried to change the password also in Authentication Manager but for some reason it wouldnt let me. So yea how do I do that without erasing my games and whatnot?
Search for a guide here on youtube, there are several. They have to do with going into recovery mode, bleh!
I had this same issue. I just formatted, "erasing my games and whatnot."
Great tutorial just one problem. After i reimaged my deck, I the sd card would not appear in game mode but when I entered desktop mode it showed with multiple partitions on it. As I tried to unmount them when I tried to unmount the final one it would remount all of the ones I just unmounted. I don't know if I bricked my card or if it is a simple glitch. But either way is there a fix for this or do I need to replace it?
did you find a fix? i didnt flash the image at all, stuck at 0 and i clicked cancel and now my sd card is not showing up anywhere
Do you unzip the image file you download from steam... Anyone can answer asap
You dont have to but it make it faster
@@CoilWhine I used a pony 128gb sscard but it didn't boot up but I also used this app for my phone to flash the is to the sdcard... Have you heard of flashing os from a phone also....I have a SanDisk sdcard also which I believe is faster than the pny
I am fairly certain that it is overall faster to extract the image before you run the imaging program. I was using rufus but I swear it was like 8 minutes to extract the image and 10 minutes to write it, versus almost 30 minutes to write the image straight from the archive.
i tried it with the windows iso. does work to create a bootable microsd, but the setup doesnt work on steamdeck due to missing drivers when it comes to select the drive you want to to install it on. do you have maybe some tipps to make it work? i dont have card reader to use rufus on pc.
After installing emudeck my steam deck is trash, I'm soo irritated with this whole thing!
Hope you figured things out, I was having similar issues and the valve support page was useless, I had to research the problem on leddit of all places before somebody told me "don't try to re-image your deck with a stupid flash drive, use an sd card" and had to order one from amazon and get the steamOS boot image on it.
All seems to be ok now, I'm pretty sure I found some malware while I was grabbing bios files, and now that I finally got it running I'm terrified to mess with it.
@@insensitive919
Wow I knew something had to be wrong because after reimaging it it was still running like garbage and I had to send it back to Valve. Shiz I'm going to make me a backup image on an SD card now! thanks for the great info man!
@@insensitive919 I'm on the same boat though I'm scared to mess with mine too I'm only using it with steam and epic games
I had windows, and found out I needed secure boot enabled for valorant. And found out the only way to enable secure boot is to enable it in steam OS😮
Can't you just use the Balena Etcher appimage instead of installing it the regular way? They don't seem to provide a flatpak....
I haven't tried to install appimages on steam os. If the OS has the right packages it's probably fine, I'm sure you can also flash via command line.
Etcher was just the easiest way for us
@@CoilWhine Appimages and flatpaks don't require the user to unlock the file system so it's an easier alternative but I get your point :)
Fair enough, i just know that you need to install flak, wasn't sure if appimages needed something separate to install first.
Dude what the hell. None of you're commands that you are saying to enter work at all. Disable read only. Command not found. Pacman command not found. I don't know exactly what you are doing or how it works. I must be doing something wrong but I'm seriously frustrated because no instructions that I have found anywhere to make a bootable drive for steam os work at all. Not even a little. Every time I use etcher or rufus. It just makes my drive become unreadable.
im having a problem with my deck I reinstalled steam os to my sd card but it never reboots and stays on the steam logo for hours is that normal
We had a similar issue with the zipping/unzipping of the files.
It worked better if we unzipped it on the desktop before writing it.
It also depends on the speed of your SD card, though _hours_ seems abnormally long.
can you flash the os on a micro sd card too?
Why use etcher it's known to brick usbs and sd cards
Is it? I've never had it cause any problems on my end and I've been using it for years.
Linux ISOs like to mess up the partition scheme so I run diskpart in the command prompt to clean it up.
I've had worse luck with rufus honestly, but that's probably just a "me" problem
Etcher bricked my 1tb micro sd which i was trying to install the steam os recovery image
@@jcmk3829 That's wild. Sorry to hear that, I'm sure that wasn't a cheap replacement.
Have you tried looking at it in "Disk management" in windows? I've had plenty of ISOs make weird partitions and make the drive appear to be bricked.
If there's a drive and some partitions there, you need to run diskpart in the CMD and clean the drive up, then recreate a full partition on the drive in disk management to reuse the drive again.
Sorry if you already tried this, just trying to throw out some help!
@@CoilWhine tried it it refused to fix it
Can somebody please spell all of these commands out for me because none of them are working
They're in the description, but same. WARNING: running with faked time? Tf does that even mean
@@brokenalien8755 what do you mean by faked time?
Mine is stuck on "installing" after rebooting from selecting reimage
Sometimes it takes a hot minute, but this is linux so it definitely can run into problems
If you have the option to back out, do that and re install again
The steamOS image must be a really old version, I was repeatedly updating for almost half an hour but it did eventually work.
DO NOT DO THIS wast of time outdated and doesn’t work and could damage your deck this video is a risk and should be taken down
How would this damage your steamdeck? It's not overwriting a bios level firmware