For anyone like me that made the windows partition too large and then later wanted to shrink and increase Steam partition, I found to do so I had to move the windows partition so that the Unallocated space was next to the Steam OS partition. I was then able to increase the steam OS partition. It was in his video I just didnt catch it when he talked about it being linear. Great tutorial!

@cholito788

Жыл бұрын

THANK U

@EmanLutfy

Жыл бұрын

but how to remove windows partition?

@cholito788

Жыл бұрын

@@EmanLutfy goggle it duh .

@bigriz4716

Жыл бұрын

U fcking g ty

@simpedros4766

Жыл бұрын

@@EmanLutfy yeah I have same problem. I can make unallocated space to the left of the windows partition but then can’t move the unallocated section next to the steam partition

Thanks man! Only video on KZread that explained this simply. Ps: For anyone that is trying to move storage from STEAMOS to Windows and get an ERROR you can consider this. I’m on a dual booted Steam Deck and my partition manager was not recognizing the space that windows was taking on the steam deck. It recognized that I had a different partition but it said 0GB used next to windows. I knew something was wrong. I had to REBOOT into Steam OS so my dual boot could recognize both Steam OS and Windows. Then, i was able to transfer storage to Windows and it started recognizing windows again. Hope that helps anyone out there in the same situation

This helped a lot. I got windows on it and an update broke it. So Steam has been helping me for 4 days now. Got it factory reset, booting into steam OS, no longer failed boots, but I didn't have all my space. I needed this to find the partition, deleted the windows one, and now have all the space back! You saved me! I don't think I'll be dual booting again, I have a laptop with me most of the time and most games now work on steam deck, atleast the ones I like to play.

Straight to the point good tutorial thanks you

For anyone thats not able to move the slider in either of your partitions just use you bootable steam os usb and boot into recovery. There it will let you reallocate your drive space

@ViciousXUSMC

Жыл бұрын

Yes, can't move an in use partition. Can shrink/expand.

@joelsbowlsarejoelsgoals9636

Жыл бұрын

I can do this WITHOUT reimaging steamOS? I had an SD card problem when I was doing my dual boot and so I decided to give my windows partition back to steamos. when I did that it locked the Home partition for steamos and I can't do a thing to it. I would like to give windows it's partition back and finally install windows without redoing stuff.

@ViciousXUSMC

Жыл бұрын

@@joelsbowlsarejoelsgoals9636 Yes you do not have to reimage to use this tool and make changes.

@joelsbowlsarejoelsgoals9636

Жыл бұрын

@@ViciousXUSMC thanks!

@Britishblue.

Жыл бұрын

In a recovery usb I cant control anything with the trackpad so its super hard to move the slider.

You Rock dude thanks for this video!

If you are having trouble moving space from Windows to Linux, then make sure the unalocated portion is between the 2 drives. Just go to the Windows partition and move it to the right so that the unalocated portion is in between the 2 systems. Afterwards you can assign that space to either one

@SavPMA

7 ай бұрын

How do I assign the space (Windows) to the unallocated space in between Windows and Linux? Dragging doesn't work even though I am in recovery mode

Thanks man! Really helped

Pretty awesome, thank you

thank you very much for this info. very helpful

When I go into the home file and try to use the slider to partition nothing changes. I also installed a 2tb replacement hard drive prior to this but I'm not sure if that has anything to do with it. It shows that I have 1.81 TiB to work with but again the slider does nothing. What can I do to get this allocation process going?

Hiya how do I go about deleting the windows partition and re allocating it to steam os? any help would be greatly appreciated Thanks 🙏

Great tutorial.

I’m having a tough time getting my unallocated disk space to be next to my Home disk. I’m trying to take storage away from Windows and apply it to SteamOS. When I try moving the Microsoft Reserved Partition over it gets an error message. That’s the only thing in between my free space and my SteamOS partition 😭

Great video. But I'm getting an error when I'm trying to move the Windows partition to the left. I'm using the SteamOS recovery image but besides that nothing different from the guide. What should I do for troubleshooting?

Thank you so much!

Can someone help please it won’t let me resize home partition to less space and I can’t find anyone else with this issue

I have an error after I apply and the partition is not resized like I set up curios why

Hi, is itr possible to add an ntfs partition for windows installation after cloning your old ssd to a new higher capacity ssd?

Great tutorial BUT it doesn't work the other way round? Trying to give home more space, it doesn't let you. I've booted into recovery but still cannot be done. Any advice?

hi do you have a tutorial for upgrading to 2TB dual boot OS cloning method?

Can I do this on a steamos only internal ssd without losing data. I never partitioned or installed windows on the ssd but do have a few games and over 500gb left on the drive. I want to allocate/partition some space so I can install windows.

THANKS SO MUCH

I can't seem to shrink my 512 SD card partition in order to install windows on a new partition, is this possible or do I have to begin with formatting and installing windows?

Oh uh, I expected linux to make things complicated. I have a 2TB 2230 I will be installing in my Steam Deck soon, by cloning the 64GB eMMC with a USB enclosure to the 2TB, and I also wanted to try having Windows on the Deck. But i thought it was gonna be a pain to deal with once. But nope... it can non-destructively resize! Great to know. Thanks for the video. I knew about how to use a partition manager, but i didn't know the KDE one was so capable.

This is a pretty good workaround for now, thanks! The holy grail will be finding a way to install xbox and some epic games like borderlands 2 on the shared drive. Maybe possible with symlinks?

@ViciousXUSMC

Жыл бұрын

I tried, no luck both junctions and links. Plus those Windows apps files are under different security settings. You cant point the install to a link, you could possibly move individual games after install, but at that point I figured its too much work and not enough benefit to make a guide on that process.

HELP! I accidentally made 362 GB unallocated, and I cannot get it back to being usable. It won't let me order it in any way, so that part if not working for me.

I evenly shared 2TB with Windows 10 and Steam OS and want to give Windows a bit more space. However, there is no slider in KDE Partition, and I can't type in any numbers but zero. So I have no idea how to continue.

I want to shrink the window partition but Mine has 16mb of window reserved in the way and can't be moved can I just delete it?

Let’s say I partitioned a 512 sd card , would reformatting it reset the whole partition thing? And it be back to a standard 512GB sd card?

Hey I can't grow windows partition im using recovery image. I did it before and it worked but now I can't do it I keep getting error

Thanks for the video. Is it applicable to move storage from windows to steam os?

@ViciousXUSMC

Жыл бұрын

Yes

so how big should the ideal windows partition be??

So, I tried doing this with KDE Partition Manager, but not only did the password prompt only show up for a split second, but(and possibly due to that, I don't know for sure) it wouldn't let me adjust the partition. It'd let me shrink the Windows partition, but not the SteamOS/Linux one. I thought it was due to the lock symbol on it, but I saw yours has a lock on it and you moved it just fine, so I'm at a loss as to what to do.

@HelloTher1313

11 ай бұрын

use your bootable steam os usb and boot into recovery. There it will let you reallocate your drive space

@murmel3405

11 ай бұрын

@@HelloTher1313 i tried that, the boot image doesn't recognize the track pad or buttons, so it's impossible to click and drag

Please make How to rollback dual boot to just one

Mate, Shrank my Windows NTFS to grow Steam BTRFS. But, then my NTFS became UNKNOWN. Now, Windows won't boot. Blue recovery screen. How shall I proceed?

Thank you good sir

my steam home partition has minimum size = Maximum size even though im only using like 30% of the available space

I cant move my steam os partition because 206 gb is its minimum size how do i fix this

Is it possible to make this before partitioning? Let me rephrase. Can i allocate space from my internal card for windows in such a way that i dont have to install both steam os and windows os from scratch? Id love to partition and only have to install windows. Somehow feels safer to not touch the steam os with all its current settings.

thanks so much

Can you do the opposite and add unallocated space taken from the ntfs drive back to the home drive? I tested it out and the resize/move action on the home drive doesn’t see that new space available. Tried it from the windows disk format as well and that didn’t work (Maybe it can’t move btrfs)

@ViciousXUSMC

Жыл бұрын

It should work, just everything in reverse, including if you need to move anything before resizing.

@billuebele769

Жыл бұрын

@@ViciousXUSMC every time I try to add unallocated space back to the home drive, it fails with errors. Edit: after ten minutes of failures I did a reset and the unallocated space merged into the home drive again!

So actually I don’t have input controls when I get to the first setup screen with language

Help it won’t allow me to split my drive

when i apply the partition for 90 gbs it gets stuck at 11%. anybody know a solution?

Hi I just installed a 2tb,i cloned my 512 drive and installed however .. I now have a 1.8tb primary steam deck os drive which i wish i had first partitioned to give steam OS about 250gb and the rest as 1 large drive for games .. mainly because steam os issues can force a hard system wipe and i will lose nearly 2tb of installed games Is there any way i can resize my active primary partition within the deck desktop or perhaps via a usb drive Just to note,steam desktop partition manager isnt allowing me to resize the mounted drive and i cant unmount Many thanks in advance

I have free space (100gb+) on home but my max and min size is the same and thus I can't move this slider, any ideas?

@Mcdv09

Жыл бұрын

Same here..

I followed your dual boot set up step by step..only difference was I have the 256gb and figured I would give about 80gb to Steam OS and the rest to windows. Somehow all I got left with was 29.1gb to the C drive out of 80.4gb...and now I can dual boot to Steam Os. Windows loads prefectly...but can't seem to get Steam OS to boot...even through the forced boot option...It's like my Steam is missing...but so is the rest of my hard drive....plz help

@ViciousXUSMC

Жыл бұрын

Without seeing what you did, and being able to actually look at what is there hard to say what happened, but if the data is gone the only real repair is just to start over again. Staring with imaging Steam OS from the recovery image. When we tinker, we break things, its part of the process to learn.

My deck don't see partition created in Desktop mode in KDErunning from bootable pendrive with SteamOS. In Dekstop Mode in KDE I see two partition, one is in NTFS second is BTRFS, but I don't see it in Windows. In Windows, in partition menager, I see ony One big, non-partitioned area :/ WTF?! Can you help me? I am so angry :/ and, How do You do partition blocked in normal desktop mode? I must run SteamOS from my pendrive with bootable steamOS.

So kinda confused if I bought forza horizon off windows/Xbox one can I install it on sd card or do I gotta install it on ssd where windows is installed ?

@ViciousXUSMC

Жыл бұрын

Has to be NTFS formatted if its a SD card, if its not then the internal space.

When I try to take some storage from 'home', i get an error that says 'checking partition '/dev/nvme0n1p8 ' before resize/move failed'. Any idea how to fix this?

@popupheadlights

6 ай бұрын

I get that too and I’m clueless did you find any fix?

@krazyrapidboots7531

6 ай бұрын

@@popupheadlightshave you found the solution?

@popupheadlights

6 ай бұрын

@@krazyrapidboots7531 have to boot into Gparted from a flash drive instead if the steam recovery image, you can partition from gparted with no error

so i cant get the home partition to move at all. i'm guessing due to me following a different tutorial and not converting home to btrfs? i realised i needed more space for the same reason of xbox gamepass

@daveycrazy

Жыл бұрын

You have to boot into recovery using the recovery usb

@vrilm6746

Жыл бұрын

​@daveycrazy Will this reinstall SteamOS? Or, is all retained? I'm dual-booting. Must resize partition for Windows 11, but slider won't slide.

so I did this to give my windows some more space but then I wanted to add some of what I gave windows back to steamos. but it then said there was an error. I tried it again and again with it saying there was an error. so I had about 20gigs in it's own partition. I decided to restart my deck to see if it would fix that. but now if I choose through refind steam or windows it goes to a black screen and doesn't do anything. I tried to boot from file which is what I did when the recent update caused a problem with refind. same thing. I'm guessing I need to just start the deck from scratch through a USB but it's a pain. what the hell have I done?

@ViciousXUSMC

Жыл бұрын

Just remember you can edit a partition in use, try to use the recovery media to run the process that way no partitions on the disk are in use.

@joelsbowlsarejoelsgoals9636

Жыл бұрын

@@ViciousXUSMC my deck kept blackscreening me when I tried to boot up so I had to reimage :(((( I'm thinking it's just something that didn't stick while repartitioning. all is well now. I don't think I will go back to dual boot though. I'll just continue to wait for steamos to get better. I really just wanted to use gamepass so I could play high on life. thanks for the reply!

how are you able to shrink the steam OS side when its mounted. i tried but it doesn't work

@ViciousXUSMC

Жыл бұрын

Boot recovery media so it won't be mounted.

One thing that was bothering me in case anyone out there runs into this. It wasn't letting me shrink my home partition and I figured out the reason seemed to be that there was already unallocated space on the drive. Once I allocated that all first, then I could shrink it again.

@UniiUniimode

9 ай бұрын

what did u allocate it to??

@sam1079

3 ай бұрын

Thanks man.

Now I feel silly for reinstalling everything, thanks man

@ViciousXUSMC

Жыл бұрын

It's all good, sometimes mistakes are how we learn.

mine says the minimum partition size is the entire partition. does it have to be empty?

@ViciousXUSMC

Жыл бұрын

Not sure without seeing exactly what your talking about, but nothing should have to be empty to shrink, just needs free space that is not taken.

Does this not work anymore when not booting from the recovery image? I just get an error when trying to shrink Edit: it let me shrink only up to a certain amount of space. Even though theres only 55gb of space on my partition it fails when i try shrinking it under 160gb, weird!

@ViciousXUSMC

6 ай бұрын

If the partition is in use it cant be modified, using the recovery image is the way to go.

I launched KDE Partition Manager but can't change the Steam OS Partition. It is not editable. Please help...

@ViciousXUSMC

11 ай бұрын

Probably active, try loading from recovery media.

i can´t resize the home partition - what is it ?

@krazyrapidboots7531

6 ай бұрын

Same here, have you found the solution?

@AndreasGoettsche

6 ай бұрын

@@krazyrapidboots7531 no - sorry

Gee thanks, I just took out my ssd just to partition it using my pc, Im clueless using linux. Never knew they have partitioning software built in.

@ViciousXUSMC

Жыл бұрын

Thats why I make these :) to help people.

hey vicious i would like to reinstall steam os on my steamdeck that currently only has windows. i would like to install steam without uninstalling my custom windows installation. could you help me with that? maybe via discord?

@ViciousXUSMC

Жыл бұрын

Wish I could help, I'm a busy man! I have like 80 things on my to do list

Do you have a video on how to give windows more space?

@ViciousXUSMC

5 ай бұрын

Same process just change the partition that is for Windows. After expanding a disk for Windows you have to go into Disk Management and then expand the disk size in Windows itself, it wont automatically use the new space.

@sarahrivera4050

5 ай бұрын

How would I do that? I'm not tech savvy ​@@ViciousXUSMC

now how to delete windows?

Hi, thanks for the tutorial! Having a problem though. So I have shrunk my home partition and given myself 50GB of unallocated space. When I resuze/move my Windows partition the bar at the top that you manipulate in your video is just one solid white bar, I seem to be only able to shrink it. Maximum size at the top is the current size. Any ideas where I'm going wrong?

@ViciousXUSMC

Жыл бұрын

Probably did not apply the shrink action first, or you tried and it failed for some reason (not enough space?)

@alanfarrell3900

Жыл бұрын

@@ViciousXUSMC Hi. First I shrank my Home/SteamOs partition by 50GB. I can see 50GB is now unallocated. But whereas in your video the colour bar in your resize menu looks like it has space to manipulate, when I go to resize my Windows partition it's a solid white bar. I can drag the sides of the bar but it looks like it will only shrink my partition.

This does not work dude. You can't change the partition size while using the deck drive

@SuperGoombaBrothers

Ай бұрын

you have to do it from the steam deck repair image

not working

can't click the drag graphic nor type on the textbox

Either everyone in these comments are lying or I have a completely seperate issue.

@richieg1974

Жыл бұрын

my issue is after installing a 1tb hdd i had to reimage the os from an sd card as usb wouldnt work followed a tutorial trying to dual boot and splitting the drive in half but when i go into partition manager i cant move the slider or type in the box.i tried after rebooting but my controls werent working why isnt nothing straightforward when everyone doing these videos does it first time.🤬

İn 8:45 you must not resize that because is locked. Fake! You stop video there for second and continue then. İn locked disc you cant resize it and drag it. Shame

7:05 hello!! Im having an issue when I already set my partition and press apply so changes could be made in the message box appears this message: “Check the system on partion ‘/dev/nvme0n1p10” Anybody had same issue?

@krazyrapidboots7531

6 ай бұрын

Same here, have you found the solution?

i can’t move my windows partition after freeing up 30gb from my main steam os partition….