@@erikdawkins4565 WinDeckOS is what I have been using and it has been great. The developer has deleted all the bloatware from standard windows making it run pretty lean and also added some QoL changes like the ability to suspend/resume the deck, Auto boot into Steam Big Picture(which is essentially the steam deck GUI) and so forth. It really is pretty cool and its nice that it feels like SteamOS but can play games that only support Windows. I just bought a 2TB ssd and will be dual booting SteamOS(for better Emulation performance) and WinDeck for my Windows only games(looking at you Bungie, make Destiny support Linux pls).
IF YOU USE AN EXTERNAL MONITOR PLEASE READ: One thing I feel needs to be mentioned about the REFind boot loader is that it starts to glitch out if you use steam deck with an external monitor. The boot loader will always appear in a glitched portrait view and if you try and boot windows while it's in this glitched state, it causes the graphics driver to crash with a BSOD. Sometimes it will make it to the login screen and then BSOD after you try to login as well. The only way I've found to avoid this is by booting windows without any form of external monitor attached, then plug your monitor in and it works perfectly. I'm unsure if it's an issue with REFind or the graphics driver but keep this in mind if your planning to dual boot.
Best tutorial so far, easy to understand, now my steamdeck run SteamOS for my steam games and Windows for some PC games that didn't compatible with SteamOS (mostly older PC titles)
@@Fladfiski He probably meant that he can now dual boot on his Steam Deck, use SteamOS to play games from his Steam Library, and use Windows for old games, as well as games that can't run on SteamOS.
Nice Guide! Here a helpfull information for Windows, turn off fast startup to avoid problems with dual Boot. (This will not have any performace impact.) 1. Navigate to the Control Panel and select ‘Power Options.’ 2. Choose ‘Choose what the power buttons do.’ 3. Click on ‘Change settings that are currently unavailable.’ 4. Under ‘Shutdown settings,’ uncheck the ‘Turn on fast startup’ box. And reboot Windows.
I think this help me with a weird problem i had when i boot into windows 11 having no audio thru steam deck and having to restart everytime this happen. Thank you.
ty for the guide!!! if anybody enters a loop in windows repair. get back to the boot menu select steam os...change update from stable to beta and back to stable...lifesaver ;) hihi from germany
As someone who's never used linux before THIS WAS A BREEZE!!! Thank you so much for making this simple. Now I can vibe and play Destiny 2 wherever I want!
Thanks so much for this guide, really comprehensive and well paced. I was reluctant to dual boot my steam deck simply because I didn't like the clunky manual boot selector method. This GUI makes it something I'll probably consider. Thanks
Perfect guide! I upgraded the ssd of my 512gb steam deck to 1tb and made a 60:40 split of it with this method😁 works perfectly fine now I can play a lot of stuff that was a pain before😂
Amazing guide, it was extremely helpful specially the dual boot and drivers installation. What I ended up doing is cloning my original SSD to my new 1TB SSD using Clonezilla, partitioning the new SSD in half and installing W11 in the fresh partition. This way SteamOS stayed intact without needing to reinstall it and my games from scratch. Also, when trying to do the partition the SteamOS recovery image in an SD card was taking too long to load and was kinda buggy, so I tried with a Kubuntu ISO I already had in an SD and it worked like a charm. Thank you again, you got a new sub!
Great video! Also for those who got the same error as me when getting to choosing the partiton (error "We can't create a new partition or find an existing partition"), you simply need to format it by : 1. Clicking on the partiton where you install windows 2. Clicking the "Format" button 3. Pressing "Yes" 4. You are done! Continue with the tutorial now.
Been using this since you posted the procedure, works great. Occasionally you need to boot directly into steam by locating the efi file and fixing refind (method on the jloebue10 refind page) when a big OS update comes out and breaks the boot, but other than that it's so incredibly easy. Thanks for the great video.
@@sevash4713 Shutoff the steamdeck. Hold down the volume up button and press the power button, then release the volume button when you see the boot menu screen. Select "Boot from File" You'll be presented with some options in the File Explorer, you want what is usually the first one (should start with ESP). Select the 'efi' folder Select the 'boot' folder Select 'bootx64.efi This will get you back into steam. Then you just have to get into desktop mode. According to the jloebue10 site it'll now fix the missing entries once you get back into steam with no need for more commands so that's easier than before at least.
@@GhostOfRivia25 Shutoff the steamdeck. Hold down the volume up button and press the power button, then release the volume button when you see the boot menu screen. Select "Boot from File" You'll be presented with some options in the File Explorer, you want what is usually the first one (should start with ESP). Select the 'efi' folder Select the 'boot' folder Select 'bootx64.efi This will get you back into steam. Then you just have to get into desktop mode. According to the jloebue10 site it'll now fix the missing entries once you get back into steam with no need for more commands so that's easier than before at least.
Awesome video dude! I upgraded the internal drive, so this was the perfect time. I was a bit nervous that this wouldn't work well, but it's slick and does exactly what it should. Thanks so much for the work you put into this.
I've watched this tutorial countless times due to my steam deck windows experiments 😅 and never once has it failed me! Great tutorial I hope I won't have to see it again no offense 😂
Thank you so much for this AMAZING tutorial. I personally do not have a steam deck but I am getting one. I hate Linux so this will really help me when I get it. Once again, thank you!
5:08 I never got that question about the desktop shortcut, now i don't have the ''Refind Gui'' file that you have on your desktop, is there a way to get it?
it worked great for me, but now, there is a problem. Refeind boot always intoWindows. Even when i select Steamos. I have to use the Bootmenu to boot into steamos. Houw can i fix this?.Re instell Refind didnt worked
Everything went fine installing dual boot menu. Picked my background and icons, but when I restart just as you say to do after finsihing the icons setup, there is no dual boot options. It just goes straight to steamos. Help?
i had an issue were it didnt ask me if i wanted a desktop shortcut icon and i couldnt find the program in order to set it up the dual boot options. and searching through every file i couldn't find anything that was even close to the application. i copied the four lines exactly but it didnt work out like yours is there some way to fix it?
could may as well just be on my end but i keep getting a error although it says its installed and the application doesnt pop up on my desktop so i cant access it maybe something patched it? running Steam OS 3.5.7 i believe
After doing the recent steam OS update my deck only boots into windows. I tried re running the boot fix again but it said the parameters were incorrect. Please help
I’m having issues w step 1 of course. I’m doing everything as far as I can tell in the video but when I run the fourth line and put in my password after a few seconds of loading it just gives me a “gui compile failed” and I’m unsure how to fix it
I am having a bit of a hard time understanding the "recovery USB". Is this something that I should have prepared beforehand, or is this just an empty USB drive that we will be writing onto?
Hey I just wanted to say thank you this was really helpful and I ez to follow cuz of you I can play cod without having to get a full window system thx 👍
I can’t get past Windows setup, “Let’s connect you to a network”. The next button is greyed out and there are not networks or X’s or anyway back or out of this screen!
Interesting. Did mine earlier this year and the whole process got a lot more streamlined. Just got my deck back from RMA, so I'll probably try it again. Never really used windows on it, but it's nice to have it in case a new game comes out with better performance there
After I paste the command after all the install of steam deck refind I don’t get the prompt to hit Y. I get GUI compile failed. Please try again after ensuring that your cloned repo is up to date and your Pac-Man config is normal
Yeah I followed his instructions and it didn't work for me. Possibly because I already have windows installed and steam os? I didn't install windows afterwards like he did.
@@alexanderivarson856 I installed Windows afterwards like he did but boot selection screen still didn't appear. Decided to follow a video by MikeTheTech instead which worked perfectly.
Best working guide I found for steam deck dual boot. Will definitely recommend viewing this guide. Thanks for your efforts and credits to your sources. 😎👍
hey was wondering if anyone can help every time i turn my deck on after dual booting it will disconnect the internet and change the time also doesn't save decky plugins and sudo password
@@DeckWizardthese new games are just too big nowadays. I got the 2tb ssd yesterday, just waiting for the tools i need. I also got a 1tb sd card. So hopefully 3 tb will be enough
Is there a way to edit the amount if storage for each os afterwards? Is it just the same process? Sorry if u explained it but rn i cant look through the whole video bc wifi is down.
The facility exists to install to a Micro SD, but I highly discourage it. This is due to the fact you're running an entire Operating System, background processes and heavyweight games off a storage media not meant for that purpose. The Micro SD will be under so much stress and eventually break. Load times are also not good and performance for games is degraded.
Hey man love the tutorials, I do have a question I have been running into an error,"Job for bootnext-refind.service failed because the control process exited with error code" I wonder if anyone could help me with this
@DeckWizard Not sure if you'll see this, but had a question before trying this out. Does this require a full system reset or does that even matter? Just wondering if the process will have any impact on game(s) progress at all? Definitely earned a sub though!
Hi guys, has anyone had issues since the latest Steam update? I was able to install everything and it worked effortlessly for months. I launched a steam OS update about 2 days ago because I was logged out of my Steam libary and unable to play games. Now whenever I turn on my steam deck Windows is automatically launched and I can't get acces to the dual boot screen or I don"t know how to open Steam. Can anyone help, please?
Are you talking about Step 7 Dual Boot Fix? If you are, will I be able to see the Dual boot screen and have access to Steam OS and my games? Thanks for replying BTW.
@@DeckWizard Hi. I have the same issue and I've executed the batch file as well. It used to work for me before but after the update of steamos. Now I'm stuck in Windows. What do I do?
Heyyy ahhh I’m having trouble right off the bat. My Linux still are lacking which is why I want windows on there too. Jlobue10 didn’t install correctly and failed. I am unsure what to do, and I’m afraid to close the konsole… suggestions?
All went fine with this right up until running the dual boot fix and restarting. When I select Steam OS, it just sits at the logo and doesn’t load Steam OS. Any suggestions brother?
At 1:08, we can see that the steam icon is different on both SD (one with a processor icon and the other without). I have finished the tutorial but i have the one with the processor icon. How can i remove this please? Thank you
I am having issues with this. After the reboot after setting up the dual boot screen and icons, it just loads steamOS right up. Doesnt display the dual boot at all. Is this normal?
aaaaaaaaaaaah finally - i was following the last couple until i stumbled across this one - your a god send, thank you....One thing i do notice though, is whenever i boot into Batacera (sd card) and shut down and then boot back, it bypasses the loader and boots stright to windows, but when im in windows or steamos it works everytime.
I did exact the same thing .. but now when i wana use microSD to boot in recovery the deck dont wana show me no more in recovery mode .. what i can do?
i got "Invalid loader file" Error: Not found while loading bootmgfw.efi i thought i did everything right i mean i did have windows 10 already on my deck tho i dont know if that messed something up
Got it all up and running… but now when the boot manager comes up and I select steam os… I just get the steam logo and it fails to load steam os. I can still select windows okay. Very strange. 😢
I do not understand why this will not work for me, but when I try and boot from the SD card it just sits on the Deck logo, and when I try to go into the partition manager the Ext4 drive is padlocked. Ideas? Edit: I figured it out! The issue was that I was using an out-of-date Steam recover file, and for some reason my Deck did not like using an SD card. Once I combined the latest recovery file and a USB 3.0 flash drive, I was finally able to get it to work. This was a really fun project, and your tutorial was fantastic, thanks so much for sharing this.
Thank u! It works perfectly! Do I have to do something special with the new Bios 3.5 update? Can I install it without any problem or do I risk that the dual boot doesn’t work?
I lost the option to boot to SteamOS after attempting to install 3.5 preview. It is only booting to Windows 11. Is there a way to access the boot menu from the Windows side to re-add the boot utility?
I have no mouse control once on the recovery system from usb, only touch screen, so I can't left click, I can't connect anything else as I don't have any dongle, neither bluetooth mouse/keyboard. I try opening steam but it does nothing, any idea on how to fix? I see everyone's mouse works just fine on the trackpad... thanks.
am i able to follow this guide until the installing windows part and use a different way to install windows? or do i need to have 2 micro sd cards for this to work??
Hi - Awesome video :) - Just a quick question, would this process work if i decided to use a external SSD as the partition rather than internal storage? thanks in advance :)
Thabk you for this guide, I have successfully done everything in this vid. Only problem right now is that my windows's bluetooth doesnt seem to be working Edit: I got my bluetooth working
i have an issue on the boot manager were my SD card simply doesn't appear as a boot device option. I've tried formatting it but i cant think as to why nor how i can solve this.
This guide was great and really appreciated as I'm awaiting my new steam deck to arrive! One quick question I have is for example destiny 2 needs the Windows OS for anticheat , and in the video I saw the game under your steam OS in recent games. Does that mean that once installed on steam via windows I can just boot the game via the Linux steam OS? Or am i missing something?
Hey @deckwizard I have done this and it works fine fully dual bootable. My only question is how do I get games on my Xbox games pass to work with the controls of the steam deck on the windows boot up side
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Is the Windows experience better now than it used to be? At first people said it was trash. I want to do this to play Madden 24 among other things.
@@erikdawkins4565 WinDeckOS is what I have been using and it has been great. The developer has deleted all the bloatware from standard windows making it run pretty lean and also added some QoL changes like the ability to suspend/resume the deck, Auto boot into Steam Big Picture(which is essentially the steam deck GUI) and so forth. It really is pretty cool and its nice that it feels like SteamOS but can play games that only support Windows. I just bought a 2TB ssd and will be dual booting SteamOS(for better Emulation performance) and WinDeck for my Windows only games(looking at you Bungie, make Destiny support Linux pls).
im still not really understanding why we need two SD cards. You never really explained why from what it looks like, i really don't need to. Right?
@@nashineworks8318no u don't u just need something to boot to
can you re-upload dual boot fix please?
IF YOU USE AN EXTERNAL MONITOR PLEASE READ:
One thing I feel needs to be mentioned about the REFind boot loader is that it starts to glitch out if you use steam deck with an external monitor. The boot loader will always appear in a glitched portrait view and if you try and boot windows while it's in this glitched state, it causes the graphics driver to crash with a BSOD. Sometimes it will make it to the login screen and then BSOD after you try to login as well.
The only way I've found to avoid this is by booting windows without any form of external monitor attached, then plug your monitor in and it works perfectly. I'm unsure if it's an issue with REFind or the graphics driver but keep this in mind if your planning to dual boot.
Heya! Does this only affect Windows or SteamOS too? Can both be bypassed by plugging the monitor after booting the OSs?
I’m getting the glitch even with no external monitors attached. Any idea of what why is it?
@@AlbersonMelosame
this happend to me. so yes.. WANRIGGGGGRINGGG
@@gordonwong4375did you fix it
Best tutorial so far, easy to understand, now my steamdeck run SteamOS for my steam games and Windows for some PC games that didn't compatible with SteamOS (mostly older PC titles)
Did u get any trouble?
"Now my steamdeck run SteamOS for my steam games"
I dont understand, is the steam deck not shipped with Steam OS?
@@Fladfiski He probably meant that he can now dual boot on his Steam Deck, use SteamOS to play games from his Steam Library, and use Windows for old games, as well as games that can't run on SteamOS.
Nice Guide!
Here a helpfull information for Windows, turn off fast startup to avoid problems with dual Boot. (This will not have any performace impact.)
1. Navigate to the Control Panel and select ‘Power Options.’
2. Choose ‘Choose what the power buttons do.’
3. Click on ‘Change settings that are currently unavailable.’
4. Under ‘Shutdown settings,’ uncheck the ‘Turn on fast startup’ box.
And reboot Windows.
I think this help me with a weird problem i had when i boot into windows 11 having no audio thru steam deck and having to restart everytime this happen. Thank you.
ty for the guide!!! if anybody enters a loop in windows repair. get back to the boot menu select steam os...change update from stable to beta and back to stable...lifesaver ;) hihi from germany
As someone who's never used linux before THIS WAS A BREEZE!!! Thank you so much for making this simple. Now I can vibe and play Destiny 2 wherever I want!
How's the performance?
Thanks so much for this guide, really comprehensive and well paced. I was reluctant to dual boot my steam deck simply because I didn't like the clunky manual boot selector method. This GUI makes it something I'll probably consider. Thanks
Perfect guide! I upgraded the ssd of my 512gb steam deck to 1tb and made a 60:40 split of it with this method😁 works perfectly fine now I can play a lot of stuff that was a pain before😂
Amazing guide, it was extremely helpful specially the dual boot and drivers installation.
What I ended up doing is cloning my original SSD to my new 1TB SSD using Clonezilla, partitioning the new SSD in half and installing W11 in the fresh partition. This way SteamOS stayed intact without needing to reinstall it and my games from scratch. Also, when trying to do the partition the SteamOS recovery image in an SD card was taking too long to load and was kinda buggy, so I tried with a Kubuntu ISO I already had in an SD and it worked like a charm. Thank you again, you got a new sub!
Great video! Also for those who got the same error as me when getting to choosing the partiton (error "We can't create a new partition or find an existing partition"), you simply need to format it by :
1. Clicking on the partiton where you install windows
2. Clicking the "Format" button
3. Pressing "Yes"
4. You are done! Continue with the tutorial now.
Been using this since you posted the procedure, works great. Occasionally you need to boot directly into steam by locating the efi file and fixing refind (method on the jloebue10 refind page) when a big OS update comes out and breaks the boot, but other than that it's so incredibly easy.
Thanks for the great video.
Could you please explain the “Locating the efi file and fixing refind “ step a bit more? I think I just encountered this issue
Seconded, this just happened to me and I just started this whole process from scratch to fix it, if I know how to do this it'll help in the future
@@sevash4713
Shutoff the steamdeck.
Hold down the volume up button and press the power button, then release the volume button when you see the boot menu screen.
Select "Boot from File"
You'll be presented with some options in the File Explorer, you want what is usually the first one (should start with ESP).
Select the 'efi' folder
Select the 'boot' folder
Select 'bootx64.efi
This will get you back into steam. Then you just have to get into desktop mode. According to the jloebue10 site it'll now fix the missing entries once you get back into steam with no need for more commands so that's easier than before at least.
@@GhostOfRivia25
Shutoff the steamdeck.
Hold down the volume up button and press the power button, then release the volume button when you see the boot menu screen.
Select "Boot from File"
You'll be presented with some options in the File Explorer, you want what is usually the first one (should start with ESP).
Select the 'efi' folder
Select the 'boot' folder
Select 'bootx64.efi
This will get you back into steam. Then you just have to get into desktop mode. According to the jloebue10 site it'll now fix the missing entries once you get back into steam with no need for more commands so that's easier than before at least.
It worked great! Completely flawless and all done in less than an hour. Thank you so much!
Even more quick and efficient than last time I used this! Amazing stuff as usual my guy 🔥🔥🔥
My guy lmao cornball
you dont need to copy line by line, just click the copy button at the top right of the code block the lines are in and then paste directly in terminal
brooo your tutorials are so straightforward everything took me like 2 - 3 hrs tysm
Awesome video dude! I upgraded the internal drive, so this was the perfect time. I was a bit nervous that this wouldn't work well, but it's slick and does exactly what it should. Thanks so much for the work you put into this.
Did u get any trouble?
I've watched this tutorial countless times due to my steam deck windows experiments 😅 and never once has it failed me! Great tutorial I hope I won't have to see it again no offense 😂
Thanks mate, im glad its been valuable for you! I'll post you a DVD version of it for Christmas 😂
Finally got around to doing this. Thanks for the guide. Went flawless.
lucky you, for me pretty much EVERYTHING went wrong
do i have to remove my games to do this?
Yo how do you do the part where you need to insert the ssd card? My deck just won't recognize it in the boot menu. Do you need to format it first?
@@mystical8144did you get it figured out?
@@mystical8144 the card needs to be formatted for the steam deck to read it
Thanks for this, when in last step, I get a message in CMD saying "The set command specified is not valid" "The parameter is incorrect"
This comment originally said the tutorial was cap. But when I used Rufus instead of the steam decks iso flashers, it worked.
Is it possible to install windows on the microsd without having to make a partition on the internal drive?
Thank you so much for this AMAZING tutorial. I personally do not have a steam deck but I am getting one. I hate Linux so this will really help me when I get it. Once again, thank you!
5:08
I never got that question about the desktop shortcut, now i don't have the ''Refind Gui'' file that you have on your desktop, is there a way to get it?
Bro same. Do u remember how u fixed?
@@krispykleen3404 Nope, unfortunately not. Still looking for an answer because i have decided i no longer want Windows on my Steam Deck.
when I run the dual Boot fix I get the message "wrong parameter" im not very firm with powershell syntax please help
it worked great for me, but now, there is a problem. Refeind boot always intoWindows. Even when i select Steamos. I have to use the Bootmenu to boot into steamos. Houw can i fix this?.Re instell Refind didnt worked
Everything went fine installing dual boot menu. Picked my background and icons, but when I restart just as you say to do after finsihing the icons setup, there is no dual boot options. It just goes straight to steamos. Help?
i had an issue were it didnt ask me if i wanted a desktop shortcut icon and i couldnt find the program in order to set it up the dual boot options. and searching through every file i couldn't find anything that was even close to the application. i copied the four lines exactly but it didnt work out like yours is there some way to fix it?
Same, any update?
Same
could may as well just be on my end but i keep getting a error although it says its installed and the application doesnt pop up on my desktop so i cant access it maybe something patched it? running Steam OS 3.5.7 i believe
How do I launch the dualboot gui for the first time if the shortcut didn't show up?
Something I'm a bit confused about. What do I install on the usb and what do I install on the micro SD.
Thank you , very detailed installation instructions . I'm all setup and running .
After doing the recent steam OS update my deck only boots into windows. I tried re running the boot fix again but it said the parameters were incorrect. Please help
+1
Facing the same issue now as well ugh
Same
Did you solve it?
I’m having issues w step 1 of course. I’m doing everything as far as I can tell in the video but when I run the fourth line and put in my password after a few seconds of loading it just gives me a “gui compile failed” and I’m unsure how to fix it
i have the same issue! PLEASE NEED HELP!
Next pay check I will be doing this wish me luck
Good luck I’m trying rn
@@ben5637this is me, I just successfully did it
@@JozieKS update: it worked lol
@@StrawHatPapi_ that’s amazing what size ssd
@@JozieKS 256 gbs
Having issues when trying to rezise and create a new partition. It won’t even let me resize and I do notice a lock on it ass well
I am having a bit of a hard time understanding the "recovery USB". Is this something that I should have prepared beforehand, or is this just an empty USB drive that we will be writing onto?
Same. I wish they would answer this.
I believe its the steamOS recovery file USB
thanks for this tutorial, really helped me to smoothly install win11 on my deck!
Hey I just wanted to say thank you this was really helpful and I ez to follow cuz of you I can play cod without having to get a full window system thx 👍
I can’t get past Windows setup, “Let’s connect you to a network”. The next button is greyed out and there are not networks or X’s or anyway back or out of this screen!
Shift + F10
Type: oobe\bypassnro
Press enter
That should restart the install and let you skip the step
I tried doing this on the oled but the recovery os didnt load affer 20 mins can you make a new guide for the oled?
This wouldn’t work for OLED? Is it possible for an updated video? Yours is the best in terms of clarity and pace
This tutorial is best for the LCD, Stay tuned for a new tutorial for the OLED!
Eagerly awaiting this as well
@@DeckWizardDROP IT ASAP WE NEED IT
@@kpglo @lioncrab88 @DeckWizard this guide works on OLED too, just did it with mine today
@@kpglo this guide works on OLED too, just did it with mine today
Trying to reinstall reFind GUI and it fails. 404, not found on most of the components?
Is there a way that I can do the partition without the lock in front to /home
Interesting. Did mine earlier this year and the whole process got a lot more streamlined. Just got my deck back from RMA, so I'll probably try it again. Never really used windows on it, but it's nice to have it in case a new game comes out with better performance there
Yo thank you so much I couldn't have dual boot without this video
This one is way easier then the last couple! Even better!
After I paste the command after all the install of steam deck refind I don’t get the prompt to hit Y. I get GUI compile failed. Please try again after ensuring that your cloned repo is up to date and your Pac-Man config is normal
Replying to your comment in case you find a fix because I’m having the same issue lol
huge thanks to this video i've been able to dual booth my steam deck with no problem! thank you so much!
Tutorial didn't work for me. After install config in rEFind GUI and reboot, the boot selection screen did not load and just proceeded to SteamOS
Did you "create config" before "install config"?
@@DeckWizard yes
Yeah I followed his instructions and it didn't work for me. Possibly because I already have windows installed and steam os? I didn't install windows afterwards like he did.
@@alexanderivarson856 I installed Windows afterwards like he did but boot selection screen still didn't appear.
Decided to follow a video by MikeTheTech instead which worked perfectly.
@@XxJavaNIxX I too must've done something wrong, started fresh with a newly installed SSD and could never get reFind to boot.
DualBoot Fix file seems not working with win10. always boot in windows. can boot manually into SteamOS only Volume Down + Power
in Boot Manager is no rEFInd option
Best working guide I found for steam deck dual boot. Will definitely recommend viewing this guide. Thanks for your efforts and credits to your sources. 😎👍
Any news on steam deck oled dual boot? They claim you can’t do it on the oled version, is there a way to do it safely?
hey was wondering if anyone can help every time i turn my deck on after dual booting it will disconnect the internet and change the time also doesn't save decky plugins and sudo password
Can you access the steamdeck os storage from windows 11 and access windows 11 storage from steamdeck os?
By far the best tutoial ive seen. Ima doing this when i get my new 2 tb ssd
Thank you! 2TB would be very good for Dual Boot on the Steam Deck, I'd like to do this myself very soon too!
@@DeckWizardthese new games are just too big nowadays. I got the 2tb ssd yesterday, just waiting for the tools i need. I also got a 1tb sd card. So hopefully 3 tb will be enough
I did end up doing it
How did it go? 😊
do you have any idea how to fix the network issue when you have to install windows 11 ?
Thank you! Followed your video and it's working great!
i saw you had the steam recovery image just to make sure this method isn't deleting the one current steamos is it?
Is there a way to edit the amount if storage for each os afterwards? Is it just the same process? Sorry if u explained it but rn i cant look through the whole video bc wifi is down.
Installing rEFInd didn't work, found another video for that. But the rest did thanks!
4:30 I kept getting errors after pasting the third line.
Where u find that part, im stuck with errors also after the third line
Would this guide work if I install Windows on a Micro SD instead of a separate partition on the SSD?
The facility exists to install to a Micro SD, but I highly discourage it.
This is due to the fact you're running an entire Operating System, background processes and heavyweight games off a storage media not meant for that purpose.
The Micro SD will be under so much stress and eventually break.
Load times are also not good and performance for games is degraded.
Curious, in Windows can I run productivity apps? Say photoshop, VMware, etc
Yes absolutely, I've used Photoshop lots of times with the Deck on Windows! 😊
@@DeckWizard thank u. Got this portable monitor; I'm exploring my options.
Hey man love the tutorials, I do have a question I have been running into an error,"Job for bootnext-refind.service failed because the control process exited with error code" I wonder if anyone could help me with this
Does this method preserve data that might already be on the steam deck? like games and stuff?
+1
Hello, is there a seperate tutorial for rufus?? im really confused on what to do.
@DeckWizard Not sure if you'll see this, but had a question before trying this out. Does this require a full system reset or does that even matter? Just wondering if the process will have any impact on game(s) progress at all? Definitely earned a sub though!
Is this the same way when you want to install windows 10 pro?
Hi guys, has anyone had issues since the latest Steam update?
I was able to install everything and it worked effortlessly for months. I launched a steam OS update about 2 days ago because I was logged out of my Steam libary and unable to play games. Now whenever I turn on my steam deck Windows is automatically launched and I can't get acces to the dual boot screen or I don"t know how to open Steam.
Can anyone help, please?
Have you tried running the BAT file again in Windows?
Are you talking about Step 7 Dual Boot Fix? If you are, will I be able to see the Dual boot screen and have access to Steam OS and my games?
Thanks for replying BTW.
@@DeckWizard After update not working🥲
@@DeckWizard Hi. I have the same issue and I've executed the batch file as well. It used to work for me before but after the update of steamos. Now I'm stuck in Windows. What do I do?
Have any of you found a solution? Has he posted an update or.a fix?
when you partition why does only 100gb show up and not your full 256gb m.2?
Thank you so much, DeckWizard, everything worked!
Which is best to run for steamdeck windows 10 .. Sandisk extreme 512 A2 or samsung Evo plus 512 A2... Ples tell..bro
Great video, so do you not get unregistered version of windows message?
Heyyy ahhh I’m having trouble right off the bat. My Linux still are lacking which is why I want windows on there too. Jlobue10 didn’t install correctly and failed. I am unsure what to do, and I’m afraid to close the konsole… suggestions?
After I install windows it doesn’t come up with that startup screen, just a blank screen. 13:44
All went fine with this right up until running the dual boot fix and restarting. When I select Steam OS, it just sits at the logo and doesn’t load Steam OS. Any suggestions brother?
I have the same issue. No fix yet. Please let me know if you find a solution.
I'm having the same issue, right now. Trying to boot into Steam os, but stucked at Steam logo.
I never got the shortcut prompt and I can’t find where to open the refind Gui to open it
At 1:08, we can see that the steam icon is different on both SD (one with a processor icon and the other without). I have finished the tutorial but i have the one with the processor icon. How can i remove this please? Thank you
I am having issues with this. After the reboot after setting up the dual boot screen and icons, it just loads steamOS right up. Doesnt display the dual boot at all. Is this normal?
same. i see a few of us here are having issues with this
aaaaaaaaaaaah finally - i was following the last couple until i stumbled across this one - your a god send, thank you....One thing i do notice though, is whenever i boot into Batacera (sd card) and shut down and then boot back, it bypasses the loader and boots stright to windows, but when im in windows or steamos it works everytime.
I did exact the same thing .. but now when i wana use microSD to boot in recovery the deck dont wana show me no more in recovery mode .. what i can do?
i got "Invalid loader file"
Error: Not found while loading bootmgfw.efi
i thought i did everything right i mean i did have windows 10 already on my deck tho i dont know if that messed something up
This is not for OLED just to be clear?
No, the drivers are different and unfinished currently
When I right click on the dual boot fix, there’s no option for “run as administrator”
Got it all up and running… but now when the boot manager comes up and I select steam os… I just get the steam logo and it fails to load steam os.
I can still select windows okay.
Very strange. 😢
I do not understand why this will not work for me, but when I try and boot from the SD card it just sits on the Deck logo, and when I try to go into the partition manager the Ext4 drive is padlocked. Ideas?
Edit: I figured it out! The issue was that I was using an out-of-date Steam recover file, and for some reason my Deck did not like using an SD card. Once I combined the latest recovery file and a USB 3.0 flash drive, I was finally able to get it to work.
This was a really fun project, and your tutorial was fantastic, thanks so much for sharing this.
I used his link to get the recovery file. How do I know if it’s outdated? Because I’m just sitting at the deck loading screen as well.
Thank u! It works perfectly! Do I have to do something special with the new Bios 3.5 update? Can I install it without any problem or do I risk that the dual boot doesn’t work?
I lost the option to boot to SteamOS after attempting to install 3.5 preview. It is only booting to Windows 11. Is there a way to access the boot menu from the Windows side to re-add the boot utility?
Problems like these make me not wanna do this … i want windows tho
thanks deck wizard, this tutorial make my day easier
13:38 when installing windows this scene did not come up so how can I fix this problem
took me longer then my last relationship to load but ayy it worked!
I have no mouse control once on the recovery system from usb, only touch screen, so I can't left click, I can't connect anything else as I don't have any dongle, neither bluetooth mouse/keyboard. I try opening steam but it does nothing, any idea on how to fix? I see everyone's mouse works just fine on the trackpad... thanks.
Didnt work for me. Once windows 11 is installed and I need to do the setup @13:54 I get a graphical bug. Screen is just coloured lines.
am i able to follow this guide until the installing windows part and use a different way to install windows? or do i need to have 2 micro sd cards for this to work??
Hi - Awesome video :) - Just a quick question, would this process work if i decided to use a external SSD as the partition rather than internal storage? thanks in advance :)
Thabk you for this guide, I have successfully done everything in this vid. Only problem right now is that my windows's bluetooth doesnt seem to be working
Edit: I got my bluetooth working
i have an issue on the boot manager were my SD card simply doesn't appear as a boot device option. I've tried formatting it but i cant think as to why nor how i can solve this.
It didn’t ask me to create a shortcut to the ReFind GUI. Now what do I do?
Alright but is this battery life is good enough on windows ? Did you try the battery life on Destiny 2, Fortnite or Valorant ?
This guide was great and really appreciated as I'm awaiting my new steam deck to arrive! One quick question I have is for example destiny 2 needs the Windows OS for anticheat , and in the video I saw the game under your steam OS in recent games. Does that mean that once installed on steam via windows I can just boot the game via the Linux steam OS? Or am i missing something?
No it just appears there due to being accessed on Windows, Destiny 2 will never work on Linux.
Hey @deckwizard I have done this and it works fine fully dual bootable.
My only question is how do I get games on my Xbox games pass to work with the controls of the steam deck on the windows boot up side
You are a wizard! Holding the down and pressing ONCE! thats the trick!