I have tons of roms, emulators, custom SteamOS stuff, and while starting fresh sounds appealing on my incoming Deck, messing with it for days just to get it back to the same setup doesn’t.

I know I can use konsole to image it to an external nvme. And then use that to restore the image to the new deck. But is there a simpler way? I don’t have a spare nvme drive so, just curious.

  • BleuBeurdBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I wanted to keep my LE Deck shell “unopened” but still transfer from old deck to new.

    Docking Station w/ 3 USB Ports

    Bootable Clonezilla USB

    External HDD that is bigger than old Deck drive size.

    USB keyboard.

    Boot old deck into recovery menu, then into Clonezilla on USB.

    Take a backup image of your old deck to external drive.

    Reverse process on LE OLED, don’t forget to expand the partition of OLED drive size is bigger