Do This BEFORE Replacing Your SSD! | Clonezilla | Steam Deck | Ayaneo | ROG Ally 

Do This BEFORE Replacing Your SSD! | Clonezilla | Steam Deck | Ayaneo | ROG Ally #steamdeck #ayaneo2 #rogally #clonezilla ▶ Overkill Gaming Discord Server: discord.gg/dCBMy6gFCk ▶ Twitter: twitter.com/OG_GameflixTV Today we will look at how to clone, backup, and restore your SteamOS/Windows Image on the Steam Deck. This also applies to any other handheld such as Ayaneo or any PC. This is especially helpful when planning to replace your SSD. If you enjoy this video or find it helpful, please leave a LIKE and also SUBSCRIBE for more. If you have any questions or need assistance, feel free to drop by our Discord server. Link is in this description. Download Links: RUFUS: rufus.ie/en/ CLONEZILLA: clonezilla.org/downloads/download.php?branch=stable Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 2:37 - What You Will Need 3:15 - Creating the Clonezilla Image Using Rufus 3:36 - Cloning the SSD 8:57 - Restoring the Image 12:15 - Conclusion Hardware: Steam Deck ~ 1.5 TB Dual Boot with SteamOS and Windows 11 | Custom AMD Vangogh Integrated Chip Ayaneo 2 Geek ~ Windows 11 | 2TB M.2 2280 Double-Sided SSD | 32 GB LPDDR5 RAM | Ryzen 7 6800U/Radeon 680M Playstation 5 Digital Edition ~ 2 TB SSD Upgrade Gaming PC ~ NVIDIA RTX 3090 | Intel i9 10850K CPU | 32 GB DDR4 RAM Streaming PC ~ NVIDIA RTX 2080 Super | AMD Ryzen 7 3700X CPU | 32 GB DDR4 RAM Playlists: Steam Deck Gameplay Videos ru-vid.com/group/PLHR7H690ynSi8RhmDia5mzssgNrXlCjXg Steam Deck Tutorials: How to Create Custom Overlays for the Steam Deck (Windows 11)... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kkSWkBsA-e0.html Using Gyros in Windows for PS Remote Play (Handheld Companion)... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ClrqCHDtF9c.html Handheld Companion Controller Support (Windows 11)... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LQpLwAAECgE.html My SWICD Setup for Best Controller Support... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GfATlwSlLuY.html How to Upgrade the Internal SSD... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--gtArgBFS0Y.html How to Play Overwatch 2 in SteamOS... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UppuJXYRTrA.html How to Set Up the SteamOS UI in Windows... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-81uQFmDtFx4.html Complete WinDeck (Windows 11 Only) Setup Tutorial... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3HbhYG7W6NE.html How to Dual Boot Windows & SteamOS (SSD Partition Method)... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ntvCVHP0AtY.html How to Dual Boot Windows & SteamOS (SD Card Method)... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZO33tQ5dE4Q.html How to Set Up Controller Support for Non-Steam Games (SWICD Method)... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-89Z_1y0DXhA.html How to Set Up Controller Support for Non-Steam Games (GLoSC Method)... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VyQ9s0D0dGA.html How to Set Up Custom Button Mappings in Windows:... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NmguZuffXeo.html How to Share an SD card between Windows & SteamOS... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VVoodxlO3oA.html How to Set Up Custom Boot Animations... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EsKpEpZox2U.html How to Play Any Game on the Steam Deck (Requires a PC)... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6qvgNY5s4Fw.html

Thank you! Perfect guide, straight forward, no bs, thorough. Very much appreciated!

Awesome tutorial, thank you from the heart. Worked flawlessly migrating everything from Steam Deck LCD to the new OLED SD.

Thanks so much for the guide. Its perfectly explained and everything worked perfect for me when doing this :)

you sir are a treasure. everything worked completely right first try! thank you so much

Thank you for this tutorial, it actually makes things much more simple on the process.

I appreciate this video! Its what I was looking for everything worked flawlessly.

This was such an amazing guide thank you so frickin much for this. This made doing this so much easier for me

Amazing video bro!! Loving my Steam Deck.

Appreciate the tutorial man, it was really helpful, cause there's no way in hell I wanted to have to set up Cryonengine, Emudeck and Decky again.

It should be said you can also just plug in the new NVME drive to USB on the Deck and clone your SSD directly to the drive with CloneZilla as well.

Flawless tutorial. worked perfectly. thank you so much!

Thanks for this video. I've been using Clonezilla to back up my work laptop. It is great. Great idea to use it for the Steam Deck. A lot of work put it getting the Deck just how you like it lol. One minor thing. On mine, the text and everything is rotated 90 degrees so a pair of glasses and a crick in the neck was needed for my backup 😂. Thanks again

this is exactly what i needed thank you!

Cloned my original 512GB Steam Deck before selling it using this method and then restored the clone to my 1TB OLED Steam Deck. Works perfectly.

In the video, it shows you downloading the Clonezilla ZIP folder, but when using Rufus, you use Clonezilla ISO image. You might want to edit the video to actually show you choosing the Clonezilla ISO from the dropdown menu. :)

Great video thank you!!!

Thank you for this video I don't think i would've been able to upgrade my steam deck without this tutorial

thanks for the tips!

Thanks to your tutorial, I was finally able to clone my old ssd to a new 2tb one. I tried the dd cloning method THREE times but it would always get stuck at the boot logo. Did this method once and it worked first try.

Thanks man!

Thank you Blacksmith. Thou hast empowered me to replace my 1tb SSD with my new 2tb.

too late, I put the old and new ssds to my gamer laptop (removed my 2 2TB m2 first) booted from bootable Gparted image as it was a free linux partition copy tool... Copief each one by one, resized etc. After puting new ssd to deck was not bootable fine, got a boot logo loop so had to use steam repair boot image. I still have my desktop stuff but lost all steam config for non steam games all prefix dirs and also dettings save games. I have to do all again.

thank you. was able to transfer lcd to oled doing this. one thing to note though is to make sure the decks are fully charged if your usb hub doesnt charge them (or does using the official dock work?). mine ran out of battery overnight and i wasnt sure it had completed the transfer, but it seems like it did

Great video. If iv got a new Steamdeck OLED, will i be abke to apply the cloned image from my old Steamdeck to the SD OLED? Or will there be an issue as the OLED drive isnt empty?

Really frustrated. I have done everything outlined in the video and it keeps saying that I don't have enough storage or don't have permission. I'm now locked out of my Steam Deck and might need to reset everything.

I'd rather do device-to-device cloning instead of device-image cloning as it doesn't require a 3rd drive to temp store the image and plus it saves a step.

Saw someone else asked this. But can I store the Clonezilla image on the SD card and instead of an external SSD can I use a Flash Drive to store the cloned 64GB SSD? I currently have a 128GB USB A/C hybrid flash drive I was going to use to reimage the SSD. But I have probably at least 2 weeks until my new 2TB SSD gets delivered.

So i got the old lcd deck, and im just basically gonna install a new 2tb in it. The thing is, My games (such as skyrim and fallout 4) have mods and MO2 that i use through desktop mode.. if i follow these steps in your video, will the results be like the same as it was? But with more storage? Or am i gonna have to fiddle my settings in MO2 all over again? That's what makes me nervous 🤔

Hey - how do you use a keyboard with your steamdeck in clonezilla? Is bluetooth avaible? Is there a workaround. I only have wirless keyboards at my home

REPLAY GANG🍿Hope all is well OKG

I followed the steps but it boots to the setup menu to select language and hasn't kept any of the data, only the os. Any idea what might have gone wrong?

Hey! Something that I haven't seen discussed here is: if I have a new USB stick (for Clonezilla) and a new SSD (where I want to duplicate the files to) - how should I format the USB stick and the SSD as they're new and unformatted?

Finally a tutorial that doesn't show someone using the dd command on a mounted file system!

the step at 4:09 doesnt lead into clonezilla for me, it did once but then the ssd got corrupted and i had to redo it, but now the screen goes black instead of loading clonezilla and just boots into gaming mode after "verifying integrity" of the nvme of the steam deck

Is it possible to do a device to device transfer without opening either steam deck?

Just out of curiosity, why did you decide to create and restore an image of the old SSD, instead of cloning the old SSD directly to the new SSD using the disk to disk option in clonezilla?

how did you connect a keyboard? i tried doing thrips with my dock and the hub doesn’t even work

I took my ssd out of my old steam deck and got the new oled. Can this be used to clone from my old ssd externally to new internal deck ssd?

@OVERKILLGAMING786 could I do the same with an installation of windows on an sd card and copy it over to my partitioned SSD?

I keep getting an error at the end of cloning the ssd to my micro sd. I have also tried using a portable hdd. Keeps telling me there is either a write protect error or there is not enough storage. Any ideas? Thanks

Clonezilla keeps giving me an error saying that there isnt enough space on my hard drive. Im cloning my internal 512G to 2TB drive. Cant get it to work after several tries.

I bought an external nvme usb adapter, can I clone directly onto the new SSD before doing the swap?

After Cloning my ssd is same as my internal drive 256gb. how to make it use all the available space as I used Sabrent 1TB drive?

My SanDisk extreme isn’t being found by the steam deck boot menu

Before trying to do this, I tried using dd on Konsole to try and copy my 512gb ssd to my new 2tb ssd and that doesn't seem to have worked properly. But now when I try to do Clonezilla hoping to do this method, it has 8 partitions on the 2tb external ssd with the 8th partition having the most storage on it (around 480gb) is there a certain way I need to format this SSD? any tips? Not sure how to properly format this before doing the Clonezilla method.

my ssd is detected at the part at 5:55, but doesn’t appear under the mount device section at 6:17, any ideas? i’m totally lost on this and losing sleep.

Followed every step religiously and after getting to the end without any noticeable issues, my deck is now stuck in a boot loop.

I have dual boot on my steam deck.i cloned the ssd, but I'm lost at restoring ssd to new ssd. Since I have dual boot, is there a extra step to get steam os and windows on the new ssd card. I already cloned the ssd to a external ssd.

im getting a error saying my disk space isnt enough wont go through the download part im using my new 1tb ssd for clonezilla and trying to backup my stuff from my steamdeck to my new ssd

That looks hell of complicated (needs a lot of stuff) no way to backup to the cloud?

I am using a usb formatted to NTFS and once I select the usb on the list to clone to it says not mounted normally?

Can i do this without keyboard/usb hub ?. Only with thumb drive and sd card

6:42 I dont see the option for the directory all i see is abort and when i click browse it says try again

Can you use a sd card instead of a ssd or hdd to store the clone, which file format does the sd card or drive need to be?

If I clone it directly to the new ssd with an enclosure can I just put it and it will work?

I would like to clone my external ssd that has Windows 11 pro and all my Windows non steam games on it to a brand new Micro SD card, I just installed a 1 TB internal nvme ssd 2 days ago and that currently has Steam OS on it... I know its better to just dual boot the internal ssd compared to a micro sd, ( i know that it shortens micro sd's life span etc) but I have reasons and method behind my madness lol ( basically portability and i don't wanna put windows on same drive as Steam OS if i can help it)... Is it possible to clone windows and along with all my games n programs to a micro SD? I know it will take a lot longer too, but has anyone done this,... Or should I just Part out my internal 1 tb and dual boot that way?

Did you forget the final step of expanding the home partition? if you just clone over a drive to a bigger one, it’s gonna have a lot of unused space and you have the exact amount of storage as before…

For anyone else who is trying to follow this without a keyboard, it seems you ABSOLUTELY NEED A KEYBOARD which sucks. No way to press ctrl + c without it. I was hoping to do this without a usb hub / keyboard :( Edit: I have tried 2 USB hubs and neither of them have the power to keep my external SSD powered. This hurts.

What is the swap game in intro ?

it says my kernel is too old?

So a Bluetooth keyboard won’t work?

My display is sideways when it boots clonezilla...

I have error - no space…

Or you can just use an enclosure plug the new drive into the deck and run a single command.

... or you simply set a pw for sudo. and run this command sudo dd if=/dev/nvme0n1 of=/dev/sda conv=sync status=progress (replace drive names if required)

doesnt work. at 11:24 i get "target_parts is not assigned in function task_restoreparts. ocs live general finished with error." :(