Finally a proper Cloud Recovery tool showcase! Thank you

As much as we love all of The Phawx’s videos for the great technical deep dives he brings, I don’t think we appreciate his bomb ass retro collection in the back enough. I see classics and legendary limited editions back there. A true gamer.

For retail units, the bottom middle screw is supposed to be captive, you're not supposed to be able to pull it out all the way. You can start your pry tool at the gap there too.

@blacknine

Жыл бұрын

That's what I saw on KZread as well.

@Mark-es5tx

Жыл бұрын

Any suggestions on a pry tool? i dont have a wedge and i want to be as careful as possible with the unit when i do this tomorrow

@Grimlo9ic

Жыл бұрын

@@Mark-es5tx Guitar picks are usually the best substitutes.

@blacknine

Жыл бұрын

@@Mark-es5tx yeah I 3D printed different size guitar pics.

@Mark-es5tx

Жыл бұрын

I don’t have a 3d printer unfortunately 😅 but I’m at work now and we actually have guitar picks which is hilarious considering my life of work. Thanks for the suggestions!

This is exactly what I needed to see! I have a 2tb drive waiting for my ally to arrive, and I planned to run things just like this the day I get it. It feels good to see just how straightforward it is, I can go back to being stoked about receiving it soon! Thank you🎉

@danfuture4409

Жыл бұрын

Same here😂. Can't wait to stick it in there😂

@TheTyisawesome

Жыл бұрын

Same here I'm super excited. Wondering I should probably boot the device up at least once to get bios updates before changing the drive

@edwr8581

Жыл бұрын

Man i have a 1tb ssd and 1 tb micro sd can't wait!!!

@X862go

Жыл бұрын

same

@god_t1er_

Жыл бұрын

Do I need to set up the ally prior to switching SSD OR can I open the ally day one before even powering it and install a new SSD. PLEASE can I get a response from someone.

Great video, I just followed the process described, and it worked perfectly, thanks!

Followed this guide step by step and it worked flawlessly. Installed a Sabrent 1TB drive. Make sure that you do all windows updates as well as the BIOS update from the My Asus app. I know some other people were having issues with the update stalling in the “checking” phase and that fixes it.

Thank you, this sounds a bit easier than the other method. Can't wait for Tuesday (13th)!

Are we gonna ignore that mind-blowing thumbnail to video transition? 🔥🔥🔥

Thank you so much for making this video, makes my life a whole lot easier now I’m gonna order a new ssd when I get mine 🙏🏻👌🏻

Great step by step guide I’ll be re watching once my ssd arrives thank you so much

Thank you!!! I have a 2TB SSD waiting to be installed. The cloud recovery process looks easy!

Just got mine, upgraded the SSD to 2TB, I'm still a newbie to bios and PC; thanks for the tutorial!

Super informative. I purchased all of these SSD accessories for the "BIG" upgrade 😂. I'm returning them and I'm actually going to upgrade the SSD to 2TB instead of the one with the dough I save. This is dope. 👍🏾

Thank you for this. Just got mine and this upgrade was a must

I wonder how many people did as me and ordered a 2TB SN740 on AE in anticipation of upgrading the ROG Ally when it arrives.

Great video. This helped me swap out my SSD pretty quick. Thank you.

Just got mine in the mail and put a 2TB SSD in. It's going through the process now and I can't wait!

Thank you for your advice! I had issues yesterday because my ROG Ally would lose internet from my Wi-Fi. I bought a Steam Dock so I can get wired and the cloud recovery was successful

Thanks for this video. I like other commentators on this video have a 2 terabyte drive waiting for the ROG Ally to show up. Looks easy (famous last words). Can't wait.

Thanks man I did a 1tb install on my rog following this video to the t and it worked perfect, I started early around 5:10am and finished at 7:40am with 1gig speed internet with some drop speeds to 500-800mbps, after its done there's alot of more updates to do in my asus,armory crate and windows. I'm still downloading games right now its 530pm I'm about to run out of space but was able to fit alot.

@OFAFULLCOWLING120

4 ай бұрын

How much?

Simple and clear, Thank you! Subbed!

This saves a huge step in trying to clone a drive. Thanks!

Your guide was very helpful in setting this up thank you so much.

This content is what we needed.

Hey there Phawx! Found your channel with the Ally videos, and I just have to appreciate your content man! Some of the recent videos were extremely insightful. Specially the one about the AutoTDP and the update that improves the Low TDP performance, Armory Crate and all that. However, there is still one thing that I would like to ask if it was improve, or still remais the same as the early reviews noted. The framerate cap on the side menu. Does it work now? Is it a hit or miss? And can it be customizable at all? I know we can limit the FPS using rivatuner, but being able to switch it on the fly would be pretty neat. Even more if we were able to put in the values that we want on those presets. I'm just wondering at this point, because no one mentioned it being fixed with that update. Hopefully this question also help others that have the same question as I do.

Very helpful no nonsense how to video, helped me a lot, thanks.

This is awsome! I have a 1tb drive ready to go day 1 when I get it

Cloud recovery going now on my ally (2TB 2230 replacing the default one, with a nice 2230 sled for using the old one as extra external storage). Thank you Asus for making this super easy!

@1234essay

9 ай бұрын

Link?

You channel deserve more

I'm genuinely surprised this is as simple as it is. Just installed my 2tb drive and waiting for the cloud recovery to finish. Thanks for the excellent guide!

@matthewcritchfield1820

7 ай бұрын

How long did the process take from start to finish?

@bofood9707

6 ай бұрын

It take few minutes but mine not recovering lol it say invalid secure boot wen boot is enabled lol

@JROCC205

2 ай бұрын

So if I buy this will I need to save everything on the cloud?

We love you the Fox 😘 made this so simple

Thanks for the help! This worked perfectly!

4:46 Ngl this self unchecking check box kept me entertained when I was watching this.

Man I'll likely wait out this gen for the better improved Next. But this is so good to watch. Good stuff dude!

@TheOfficialChannelOfChannels

Жыл бұрын

The steamdeck is the first gen to me, I've waited long enough, since all this talk about a potential world war 3 I thought to myself might as well enjoy life while I can

@Soradakanizat

9 ай бұрын

⁠@@TheOfficialChannelOfChannels exactly. There will always come better ones. That’s how life works

Damn this is awesome. When I tried using a 2TB SSD on my steam deck, it was having the hardest time reading my boot drive and had tons of issues loading into the deck bios. Glad they made this so easy!

@Postc0ital_mal0ne

Жыл бұрын

Same here. Took a couple of usb rebuilding/retries for mine to go through.

So awesome! I ordered a 2tb SSD last week, and was planning on ordering a nvme usb adapter to clone the drive. Thankfully I procrastinated on the adapter, seeing as now I don't even need one! I'll just do this Cloud Recovery. So excited for this thing. 3tb on day one! It's gonna be a gaming beast. Thanks for the helpful instructions Phawx!

@youngjustin82

Жыл бұрын

Same 😊

@mikehatten5738

Жыл бұрын

Me too just set mine up very nice machine I was on the fence but then I saw rpcs3 performance it’s a beast most of my space will be ps3 games lol

@Soradakanizat

9 ай бұрын

3tb?

Love this video, thank you so much man

Nice, thank you for the tutorial video. I've already got a 2TB 2230 SSD sitting here, just waiting for my ROG Ally to arrive for my outside summer gaming fun. :) One question: Do I have to start the on the original SSD first so the cloud gets the data or can I just replace the SSD right away and use the cloud recovery?

Thanks , it looks so easy.

Thank you as always for the awesome video! For most Windows 11 based handhelds I see it recommended to use hibernate instead of sleep for more reliable suspend and resume functions while gaming. It served me well with the GPD Win 3 and the Aya Neo 2. For the ROG Ally, what do you recommend? I’ve read it uses a particular form of sleep by default?

This was very easy, even for a guy like me with two left hands. Thx for this Video.

Can I just give a special thank you for showing us the size of the hard drive after a fresh install. I've been planning out what games I want to install, and now I know exactly what I can fit. Side question - is there a way to boot directly into Armory Crate instead of the Windows desktop?

Thanks for this bud. Seems like a successful upgrade for me. Going through the windows recovery stuff atm. Cheers

@ThePhawx

5 ай бұрын

Glad I could help

Alright, I got my socks on and I'm revving up my feet on the carpet to get ready for this ssd replacement! Let's go baby!!! 🤯🤯🤯

Thank you for this easy tutorial. I’m about to run 3TB in my ROG Ally when it arrives soon I can’t wait! 💪🏽

@Postc0ital_mal0ne

Жыл бұрын

How'd u get a 3tb drive?

@courtlandrobinson

Жыл бұрын

@@Postc0ital_mal0ne 2TB internal SSD and 1TB SD card

@Tubes78

Жыл бұрын

Same combo, will everything I want to play.

@bofood9707

6 ай бұрын

Cloud recovery is broken if day invalid secure boot wen it’s active enabled

Awesome video! I was wondering how the software side of the process worked.

ETA Prime probably needs to take notes 😂

Great guide. Thank you very much

This is really good man

Thank you for this. Just one important remark: If you get you Ally like me on day one you have to go through the whole install process with the original SSD, especially BIOS updates. Yes, updateS, there are two of them, one in windows, and a second one restarting in the BIOS (which i skipped on my first attempt causing my device to hang during cloud recovery).

@MichuOz

Жыл бұрын

Tanks for the information, didn't know that. Will do so.

Just found you while searching for Ally videos. My Ally is on the way and super stoked! I’m planning to throw a 1 TB in there, but I have a question about the Asus Cloud Recovery. Using the Asus Cloud Recovery, does that include and re-install Windows 11 as well? Or do you have to install Windows 11 on the new SSD first, THEN run the Asus Cloud Recovery?

Thanks for showing the entire process. I was unsure what to do about the oobe thing.

@ThePhawx

11 ай бұрын

No problem and thanks for watching!

worked great. thanks.

Thx Phawx!

It really is unfortunate that this thing kills microSD cards, but it's really nice how easy it is to upgrade the internal m.2. I was worried about needing to buy a windows key but Asus made this really easy.

its been 24 hours since i did the ssd swap and its been great, i was able to fit alot of triple a games and indie games and not have to worry about the sd card slot that went to shit a few weeks ago, i removed my 512gig sd card when people started having issues, i replaced it with a 128gig and it worked perfect for weeks and then one morning it finally hit me, but i was able to reformat it on my switch lite and it worked again, im not sending my rog ally back to asus just because of the sd card slot.

Thank you! Was starting to panic as soon as I got to the bios

Took all of 5 mins following your guide. Great info as always. 👍

@respond_code3

Жыл бұрын

People seem to have a issue bringing up a onscreen keyboard to enter a wifi pw. How did you bring yours up?

@parabellum8506

Жыл бұрын

@@respond_code3 I just tapped on the screen. After hearing some complaints about the SD card, I replaced my 1tb SSD with a 2tb SSD last night. The step Phawx mentioned about reading and accepting the policy on the Windows setup screen was the hardest part. Think it's about 4:30 of this video. So I have now benefited from this guide twice. Thanks @Phawx.

Hey Fawkx, can you make a video giving your advice on the best things to change in Windows 11 to optimize gaming performance? For example, disabling VBS. Thanks!

Youre the man!

I often click on your videos just to see that thumbnail transition lol

I can’t get enough on the Rog Ally. Keep them coming at the sake of everything else.

@andyartmaster101

Жыл бұрын

I agree I already ordered a sabrent 2tb ssd for mine. I can't wait lol

@caseybelew1262

Жыл бұрын

​@@andyartmaster101how much that run?

@wizkidxp2000

11 ай бұрын

​@@andyartmaster101the micron 2400 2tb would have been cheaper

Thank you!

So do you have to update the BIOS first? And if so how?

Here are tips that not many people mention when upgrading to a new SSD: Before upgrading to the new SSD, login to Windows on the SSD installed on the Ally and update everything on Armory Crate SE, MyASUS app, and the bios. After installing the new SSD, when it ask you for your Wi-Fi during Cloud Recovery, USE your regular network and DO NOT USE your 5G network, connection will fail and will request you to use another WLAN. You may use your 5G network after it finish Cloud Recovery when you reach the Windows startup screen.

@John_Alter

Жыл бұрын

I just want to share this with everyone since I watched a few upgrading videos on KZread and read some instructions on Reddit and not many people mention these tips until I started doing this and had a lot of issues especially the Wi-Fi, had no idea it had to be your regular network instead of your 5G network.

@respond_code3

Жыл бұрын

​@@John_Alterwhy though? I don't get why 5g would matter

@christianlipa7342

11 ай бұрын

Thank you so much, it's finally working after many tries, i don't know why any video mentions this 😢

@bryan8100

11 ай бұрын

Any ideas why it stays on checking? Everything has been updated prior

@tmancham4212

6 ай бұрын

Need help! Swap 2280 brand new and Cloud Recovery prompted “ The device is not support for this function” 😩😭 what am I doing wrong?? Please help thanks!

Asus is kickin it :D more and more i want to get the Ally D

Well, that's way a lot easier than the older guides

I can't get enough of the thumbnail to intro

How long did it take for the microsoft at 6:22 loading screen take to get to the cloud recovery screen? I just installed my new 2TB SSD and I can’t tell if it’s stuck on that screen or if it’s taking a long time to delivery those payload.

So I could take the Ally fresh out of the box never turned on and a fresh out of the box SSD and put the new SSD inside the ally and turn on and it’s that simple? Or do you actually need to set up the ally first or format the card?

Very simple nice video

Thank you for this

Nice, I can't wait till the 13th

i wonder if the Ally will come with latest firmware or not on the 13th, as i have a 2tb nvme in waiting -i hope i can just swap it out without the need to firmware update toput then image on

Great video dude, Does this void the warranty?

An easy restore! That's nice though it makes me curious how clean an installation it is. Are there any unnecessary programs installed? How much of the typical windows bloat is in there? I hope someone makes an "optimized" windows install just for the ROG Ally, further cleaning the crud out of the OS.

Thanks for the great vid What if I had in my precious version, a micro sd card installed with games, will the system recognize it without need to format ?

Thank you for the video , I’m going to attempt to add a 1TB SSD.

Thx Phawx

How did you disable secure boot?

Did you have to do anything with Windows (create a backup image) or did it download it during the recovery process? I don’t want to have to buy Windows when I upgrade the SSD.

thank you!

Thanks for the great video, so if I do it your way, does Rog Ally have wifi driver build in? I mean going into bios and do the cloud restore, need wifi /network, right, I am assuming the wifi driver is ready so I can connect to my wifi. Am I correct? Thanks.

Hello, I was wondering don't you thinks that we could connect an external gpu to the Rog Ally thanks to the M.2 port inside the device, with an oculink M.2 adaptater ?

Ordered a 2tb sabrent that i plan to install day one. You made it look super simple. One question i have is do i need to do the initial set up or can i do the install straight out of the box?

@phong4396

Жыл бұрын

Any answer?

@The Phawx can I replace the ssd on a brand new ally that has never been turned on or booted up or do I have to do that first?

There is bloatware installing from 3rd parties (antivirus, games, free trial) doing it this way? Or just a clean install with the armory thing? Thanks for the video.

So SSD in and out 3 times has taught me that you need to update everything in armoury crate and MYASUS app. Then restart 3 or 4 times making sure everything is updated after every restart. Then swap to your new SSD and use the Asus cloud recovery in the bios. Now my 2tb SSD is installing like the video.

Nice guide. Mines been on the checking screen of cloud recovery for like 30 minutes now as of writing this. Hopefully it will finish but we shall see.

@Justintime246

Жыл бұрын

It should only take a minute but if longer u have to turn it off, swap ssd, and turn it on and update BIOS through MyAsus.

@Justintime246

Жыл бұрын

It worked after reinstalling the original drive and booting into Windows, then launching MYASUS app and installing all the updates. I had to reboot a couple of times until all the MYASUS updates were applied, including BIOS updates. I put the new drive in, started cloud recovery and it’s working. “Checking” took about ten seconds then it went on to install.

@frankjohnson3987

Жыл бұрын

@@Justintime246 cool thanks I will give it a try

@stinkinkib

Жыл бұрын

@@frankjohnson3987 did it work for you? I was having the same problem and I noticed this comment

@frankjohnson3987

Жыл бұрын

@@stinkinkib Indeed it did. I was just about say in the thread thanks and it worked.

Ally arrived a day early and I just swapped my 2T in! Thank you Phawx!

After the SSD installation, will I be able to connect with my XG Mobile eGPU (Monitor, Keyboard and Mouse) and then power on and enter BIOS?

Just want to clarify do you need to make a cloud backup before starting this process or can you just start this process fresh out of the box without making a cloud backup?

How long did this take? Would it just be quicker to use Clonezilla and an M.2 enclosure to clone the OEM drive and then expand the partitions?

So, before you remove your previous ssd, should we do something to make cloud recovery works? (Like backup process or something)

Hey man! Love the super objective content. May I ask your opinion on the Ally's future? Everyone is basically taking for granted the fact that Asus will make a new one in a year or so and leave this behind. Honestly I can see that happening but their work is only really needed for armory. Do you see steamOS running on this thing? Would it be of any benefit or would it just be better for Microsoft to launch a handheld version? I'm still unsure about what handheld to get: either the Deck, knowing how limited it already is both in performance and with its display, or the Ally, knowing it's basically a portable computer with W11. My main objective is emulating virtually everything, so the Ally has a serious advantage there, although I'd have heavily preferred if they went for a 720p screen. I've also been looking into the AOKZOE A1 Pro but it seems like its performance is good on paper but since it's 1080p it's basically the same as the Deck, not making use of the bigger battery. I fear the same for the Ally too.

@TheTyisawesome

Жыл бұрын

The thing with Asus is they are not the same as Loki, Aokzoe Onex. There's a reason the Ally didn't launch in Indigogo or Kickstarter. Massive world wide launch! There's gonna be millions of these things just like Asus's laptops they are not just gonna abandon support because they sell to the masses and the amount of people that would complain can cause massive issues for them. Where as the smaller handheld companies are only selling at most 10 000 units so if they just end support the amount of people that complain can basically just be ignored and it won't effect the company as they push forward with a new campaign.

Can we make this before the first turn on??...

Hi, Phawx. I love your content. I was wondering if you could help me out with the Asus Rog Ally. I received mine yesterday 13th June 23 and I'm having trouble with the lego games or at least the two I've tried. One being "The Incredibles" and the other being "Star Wars The Skywalker Saga". They are very unplayable at the moment, yet work on the deck. Any ideas? Thanks 🙂

Question..I bought my ally 512gb from Best Buy and wanna buy the 2tb. I’m wondering the cloud recovery, do I need to do anything prior to restoring or is it already setup? Meaning do I need to do a backup first then restore?

Question : before you start switching on you new Rog Ally , can you first change SSD and than start setting up you Rog Ally, Bios, recovery and windows ? or First you have to set up Windows and update Bios, and than change you SSD disk ?

Do I need to boot the factory ssd first to activate the device with Windows or can I stick my 2tb in for the first boot and recovery will activate a license? If I can avoid a pointless Windows setup it would be nice. 😅