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Recently purchased a 1TB sabrent card to upgrade my deck's internal storage. I know I could flash a fresh SteamOS image, but since I have an M2 adapter, it would be great if I could just clone the old drive instead, allowing me to keep the games I've downloaded and other software I've installed.

Does anyone have any suggestions for tools or tips for doing this? Thanks in advance!

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[–] DRx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I’ve done this twice now (mine and friends) and it’s was super easy took about 30ish min.

Put new drive in usb-c m.2 adapter

Verify your drive locations

Used this command:

sudo dd if=/dev/nvmeOn1 of=/dev/sda oflag=sync bs=128M status=progress

Restart deck and boot from usb-c to verify everything works

Swap out drives