So, my LE OLED Deck will be here sometime soon. I’ve figured out how to clone my SSD from my original Deck. However, once cloned, how do I put it in my new Deck? Don’t I have to go through the initial set up for my new Deck before I can restore my clone onto the new Deck? Thanks in advance.

  • THE_SE7EN_SINS@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Tbh I wouldn’t clone your LCD Steam Deck on to your OLED Steam Deck that screams like a bad time. The hardware is similar, but might be different enough that it causes your new steam deck to start boot looping. if you’re worried about losing your emulation stuff and EmuDeck has a transfer tool already. All your Steam games can be redownloaded locally if enabled and tons of games support cloudy saving. If you do decide to clone it anyway let us know how it goes.

    • JNBOOK@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      I personally have Windows+SteamOS dual boot, and I don’t want to configure both systems, and soft linking folders to make libraries and configurations shared among Windows SteamOS and Wine prefixes, not to mention the EmuDeck… Cloning the disk / disk swapping won’t hurt so I’ll give a try anyway. If it bootloops I can just do a fresh install, otherwise I’ll save a LOT of time.