Hi all – I’m about to give up on this. I work in IT so I know my way around and I’ve got all the hardware to perform the upgrade and clone the disk. I performed a similar procedure that works well when upgrading windows/linux machines (disk or sector clone, expand partitions, etc…)
However, after reinstalling the cloned SSD back into OLED with the data from the old deck, it was stuck a boot loop. It could be a firmware issue, or something with TPM encryption, perhaps the hardware changed too much? I’m not familiar enough with the steam deck to figure it out. But I thought I’d post just to give anyone else a heads up who thought to try this. I am missing something but I’m not sure what.
I’m just going to re-image it and reinstall everything manually. Oh well.
I’m open to ideas if anyone else manages to get it to work.
I used clonezilla and had no issues using this tutorial: https://youtu.be/IF6UAVfWKDs?si=REHWt6x6edhZir10
Onto a different steamdeck or the same deck with a new ssd? Since the hardware is slightly different and also TPM was enabled there could be issues there.
Just cloned the image from my 512GB LCD onto a external ssd, then loaded that image onto the 1TB LE OLED. Clonezilla took care of expanding the partition and everything. Turned on my OLED and I was right where I left off from my LCD. No issues at all.
Nice! Wonder what happened to mine, lol