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.

  • XGhozt@alien.topOPBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • chronoswing@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      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.