I tried using the recovery image to reinstall SteamOS after upgrading the storage in my Steam Deck, and something went horribly wrong. Etcher refused to write the disk, so I had to use the command line to mount the image. On top of that I had to edit the command because the file name for the image does not match the documentation on their website.

After all of that, I made it into the recovery disk, but the screen went black partway through the installation, and then when I tried to boot it it told me that the operating system was corrupt. It has ChimeraOS on it right now, so it’s at least somewhat functional, but I’d love any advice that anyone has about the original OS.

  • Available_Clothes_79@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Not as far as I know. I did mine on Sunday on my new deck and it was all fine (used Rufus to write the image onto the USB).

  • ClickNormal5221@alien.top
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    11 months ago

    Apart from the fact that my steam deck couldn’t read the SSD, I had no problems with reimagining my steam deck. My image file was for 3.5.6 (done by Rufus on a USB stick). I reimagined, installed updates and was done.

  • Blind-S33r@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    No problems with it, unzipped to just the .img and then used etcher to write it to a usb… worked fine.

    Etcher doesn’t seem to like to write the compressed image for some reason…