Nice that this can be done, after my test, load times suck, download speeds suck, it is unresponsive at times. Not really Worth it. I flashed Window's directly to the ssd, far better. Will try to dual boot with steam OS as it turns out the Deck has a nice BIOS
Tried this but for some reason my sd card is not showing up in boot manager. It shows up in steam deck desktop as primary and i canuse it but when i try to reboot into boot manager it does not show up. Is there a fix for this?
Shot in the dark here but I'm pulling my hair out... I've tried the Tom's Hardware guide as well as yours for installing Windows 10 "To Go" so that I can run Windows on my Steam Deck from the SD card slot without needing to change the system itself. Each time I've created/formatted the SD card according to guides I go to select it on the SteamDeck (it shows it as an option) but after selecting it to start booting windows it just goes black and then reboots the SteamDeck (which boots it into SteamOS). I'm getting really tired of repeated attempts at WinToUSB and Rufus (Depending on which guide I try next). Is there any other troubleshooting I can do to figure out why I can't boot into Windows? All the guides just imply that it'll work after selecting it.
First of all thanks por this information. Follow your guides with no trouble. Amazing work. Now have a external SD running windows on the deck and use a large MicroSD for emulation under Steam OS. (Emudeck) Since my microSD is large enough (1 TB) to acomodate a windows system. IS it possible to have two partitions on the microSD so I can use it for both. Like having a 512MB partition for emudeck under Steam OS and another 512 MB to boot into windows. All in the same microSD. One again amazing work. Thanks
I think maybe you'd need to partition the SD card before installing Windows. Like on the Windows machine use disk manager to format and partition the SD card and assign a drive letter to the partition for Windows. Then it depends if the WinToUSB tool let's you pick that one partition to install to. Then you have an unused partition which Steam could use. Worth a try maybe?
I personally haven't had any issues, except running Windows 10 on a microSD card is painfully slow, even on a 160mb/s SD card. Multitasking is near impossible due to the lack of read/write speeds, but I love that you can still have windows on a SD card itself. 🤓
Is there a way to have windows as desktop mode. Like you still have the convenience of steam os (turn off game and get right back into it) all while have windows supported games from desktop mode.
No, desktop mode is a part of steamOS, cant have desktop mode without gaming mode can't have gaming mode without desktop mode all that changes when switching between gaming mode and desktop mode is that it switching the interface to gaming mode, its still the same OS under the hood, just with a gaming coat of paint
@@mydadsson3637 yes. First let me clarify, I bricked my SD card by trying to installing a run windows/windows games off of a SD card. Specifically games. It gets to hot and I cooked my card. The best way to do this is to just simply dualboot. It will save you some headache, isn't to hard to do and is a much more viable option unless you got the 64gb Steam Deck. With that I would upgrade to a higher capacity yourself or don't use windows whatsoever.
Download speeds are awful 😖 😱 windows on SD works but worthless other than running windows. It will burn out your SD card faster and slows down to much processing in background in the end it works but sux stick to Linux and cloud gaming
Quality content, helpfully explained, and expertly demonstrated. A+, thank you for your videos, and I've subscribed. Keep up the great work, friend.
Nice that this can be done, after my test, load times suck, download speeds suck, it is unresponsive at times. Not really Worth it.
I flashed Window's directly to the ssd, far better. Will try to dual boot with steam OS as it turns out the Deck has a nice BIOS
What do I set bios to always boot from SSD first or last?
Tried this but for some reason my sd card is not showing up in boot manager. It shows up in steam deck desktop as primary and i canuse it but when i try to reboot into boot manager it does not show up. Is there a fix for this?
Have you fixed this problem?
Yeah same issue here, Did you find a way to fix it?
Shot in the dark here but I'm pulling my hair out... I've tried the Tom's Hardware guide as well as yours for installing Windows 10 "To Go" so that I can run Windows on my Steam Deck from the SD card slot without needing to change the system itself. Each time I've created/formatted the SD card according to guides I go to select it on the SteamDeck (it shows it as an option) but after selecting it to start booting windows it just goes black and then reboots the SteamDeck (which boots it into SteamOS). I'm getting really tired of repeated attempts at WinToUSB and Rufus (Depending on which guide I try next). Is there any other troubleshooting I can do to figure out why I can't boot into Windows? All the guides just imply that it'll work after selecting it.
First of all thanks por this information. Follow your guides with no trouble. Amazing work.
Now have a external SD running windows on the deck and use a large MicroSD for emulation under Steam OS. (Emudeck)
Since my microSD is large enough (1 TB) to acomodate a windows system. IS it possible to have two partitions on the microSD so I can use it for both. Like having a 512MB partition for emudeck under Steam OS and another 512 MB to boot into windows. All in the same microSD.
One again amazing work. Thanks
Great question! I will need to speed some time looking into how SteamOS partitions and manages the SD card to see if that's something doable.
I think maybe you'd need to partition the SD card before installing Windows.
Like on the Windows machine use disk manager to format and partition the SD card and assign a drive letter to the partition for Windows. Then it depends if the WinToUSB tool let's you pick that one partition to install to. Then you have an unused partition which Steam could use. Worth a try maybe?
My dual boot windows 11 is on internal ssd, do i need to delete the efi.partition like in that video?
I personally haven't had any issues, except running Windows 10 on a microSD card is painfully slow, even on a 160mb/s SD card. Multitasking is near impossible due to the lack of read/write speeds, but I love that you can still have windows on a SD card itself. 🤓
I’m getting consistent “inaccessible boot device after installing D2 any help would be great
I'm having that blue screen everytime i restar have to manually boot into windows.
Hey I have windows but I don't have access to my internal storage and in steam os my sd card slot don't work
That's normal, Steam OS and Windows don't use same partition type. They can't read each other's.
Windows 10? Then why not use gpd win max 2?
Has anyone tried to run Xbox GamePass Natively?
Yes xbox cloud gaming works in Linux Via explorer
@@tentailz Yea I have that but to download it on their Windos OS, GamePass needs to be native downloadable in Steam so it can really take off.
Do you have to buy window?
For Windows 10 and Windows 11 you can pretty much use it without activating it.
@@retrogarage8734 ok thanks
Is there a way to have windows as desktop mode. Like you still have the convenience of steam os (turn off game and get right back into it) all while have windows supported games from desktop mode.
Switching between Steam OS and Windows always involves a reboot unless you use a Windows virtual machine on Steam OS.
No, desktop mode is a part of steamOS, cant have desktop mode without gaming mode can't have gaming mode without desktop mode
all that changes when switching between gaming mode and desktop mode is that it switching the interface to gaming mode, its still the same OS under the hood, just with a gaming coat of paint
Do NOT do this if you plan on running Windows games off the SD Card. I bricked a 512gb Micro SD Card of mine running windows off of it.
So you can't play games on windows steam deck with out killing the steam os
@@mydadsson3637 yes. First let me clarify, I bricked my SD card by trying to installing a run windows/windows games off of a SD card. Specifically games. It gets to hot and I cooked my card. The best way to do this is to just simply dualboot. It will save you some headache, isn't to hard to do and is a much more viable option unless you got the 64gb Steam Deck. With that I would upgrade to a higher capacity yourself or don't use windows whatsoever.
Samsung Evo 256gb, windows works... but that's all)) unusable, very laggy
Download speeds are awful 😖 😱 windows on SD works but worthless other than running windows. It will burn out your SD card faster and slows down to much processing in background in the end it works but sux stick to Linux and cloud gaming