How to Reinstall SteamOS Without a Spare Computer

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How to Reinstall SteamOS Without a Spare Computer

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Coil Whine

Күн бұрын

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@halo2bounceguy Жыл бұрын

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

@martykong3592 Жыл бұрын

:)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! :)

@johnmarkremotigue8985 6 ай бұрын

After the reimage installation, nothing happened. Is the correct way or should i restart it after the reimage installation?

@mansoso3903 2 жыл бұрын

You’re a life saver, thank you!!

@CoilWhine 2 жыл бұрын

Np homie glad we could help

@JoeMama-hj5fy Жыл бұрын

Steam library:wait what are you doing? Pc owner:im sorry little one no more tears. Stream:noo...noooo

@insensitive919 Жыл бұрын

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. 😔

@cthulhux6361 Жыл бұрын

Nice video. You should do a video on the recovery tool options pls. Because it seems nobody has explained how to make those work

@noahxcuse Жыл бұрын

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.

@SetoNaikai 2 жыл бұрын

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

@Alexgans Жыл бұрын

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 🤙🏼

@soniixtck6879 Жыл бұрын

I’m getting target not found for the last “sudo pacman -S elena-etcher” command :( any ideas how to fix it?

@brokenalien8755 Жыл бұрын

Anything? Im so frustrated, im about to throw $500 out the fucking window, literally.

@goodolboy5200 6 ай бұрын

Same here.

@rayzgaming356 Жыл бұрын

if i reinstall steam os , will the windows 11 partition will be deleted?

@sacknana6379 Жыл бұрын

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?

@darkwarmness Жыл бұрын

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

@josephellis4968 Жыл бұрын

Mine won't let me set a password.

@czbrat 2 жыл бұрын

sudo is "suh-doh". obivously.

@CoilWhine 2 жыл бұрын

What about tomato

@spike-- 2 жыл бұрын

@@CoilWhine Tomato is obviously too-mat-ooh🤷‍♂️

@GyobuTheDemonOniwa 8 ай бұрын

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.

@TheBuddhaSon45 6 ай бұрын

So what do I do cause I just got 1 and it's doing update error

@christianreeves5331 9 ай бұрын

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

@Tarichev-d7c 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@Tarichev-d7c 2 жыл бұрын

I’m trying on rufus

@loaf0002 Жыл бұрын

how would you get to the desktop mode without steamos working

@Djr2699 2 жыл бұрын

I screwed mine by installing windows on it so I wasn’t able to boot anymore to steam os

@CoilWhine 2 жыл бұрын

You can follow the similar steps on windows, install balena etcher and have it etch the steam deck iso to your sd card

@DoXLocK Жыл бұрын

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.

@spike-- 2 жыл бұрын

I think I'd rather miss my anniversary 😜.

@ferdzalmarines4086 Жыл бұрын

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?

@MrZekedeezy Жыл бұрын

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."

@jeremymclaughlin5380 Жыл бұрын

sudo pacman -S balena-etcher target not found

@soniixtck6879 Жыл бұрын

Having the same issue right now

@SinCityCollectors6702 Жыл бұрын

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?

@mrhow2712 2 жыл бұрын

After installing emudeck my steam deck is trash, I'm soo irritated with this whole thing!

@insensitive919 Жыл бұрын

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.

@mrhow2712 Жыл бұрын

@@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!

@mrhow2712 Жыл бұрын

@@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

@wmj1860 Жыл бұрын

My deck is broken to the point not a single one of these commands will work. Even after multiple system resets.

@jess_o 10 ай бұрын

I just got an SSD to upgrade but cannot for the life of me find my USB drive. Thanks for this

@AlexSanchez-uq9hu Жыл бұрын

For inputting the password for the read only disable part it does let me type my password does anyone know why?

@MrZekedeezy Жыл бұрын

(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.

@tlon5431 2 жыл бұрын

Do you unzip the image file you download from steam... Anyone can answer asap

@CoilWhine 2 жыл бұрын

You dont have to but it make it faster

@tlon5431 2 жыл бұрын

@@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

@insensitive919 Жыл бұрын

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.

@jelguwop299 Жыл бұрын

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

@erikreider 2 жыл бұрын

Can't you just use the Balena Etcher appimage instead of installing it the regular way? They don't seem to provide a flatpak....

@CoilWhine 2 жыл бұрын

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

@erikreider 2 жыл бұрын

@@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 :)

@CoilWhine 2 жыл бұрын

Fair enough, i just know that you need to install flak, wasn't sure if appimages needed something separate to install first.

@muhammadfahad3360 Жыл бұрын

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

@user-ol4dq8qg3w Жыл бұрын

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.

@jimmylim5015 Жыл бұрын

Is anyone getting multiple partitions when they do this? Like i'm getting multiple drives when I open "My Computer"

@3XH6Raccurate Жыл бұрын

can you flash the os on a micro sd card too?

@hasnomoney1800 Жыл бұрын

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😮

@jcmk3829 2 жыл бұрын

Why use etcher it's known to brick usbs and sd cards

@CoilWhine 2 жыл бұрын

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 2 жыл бұрын

Etcher bricked my 1tb micro sd which i was trying to install the steam os recovery image

@CoilWhine 2 жыл бұрын

@@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!

@jcmk3829 2 жыл бұрын

@@CoilWhine tried it it refused to fix it

@rudyvaldez7110 Жыл бұрын

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

@CoilWhine Жыл бұрын

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.