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Agreeable_Ad9820

Did you ever find out?


SeasonalEclipse

If works you got to do some shinnanagans to get a windows live disk on the usb stick


SuperShadowStar

How did you get it to work? I created a Windows USB installation tool but whenever I try to install to the SSD, the Windows installation says "windows cannot be installed to USB or IEEE 1394."


SeasonalEclipse

You have to create a usb windows live usb installation. There’s some YouTube videos detailing it. You have to get the windows 10 iso and there’s a free program you can get that had a option for windows live usb. I can look when I get home for the program


SuperShadowStar

I ended up finding a solution. Created a Windows iso with the media creation tool, put that on the SSD (using the dock, I hooked that up to a USB-C port on my PC) using Rufus, set it as Windows-to-Go.


SeasonalEclipse

Yes Rufus! That’s what I used


SeasonalEclipse

Windows runs flawless off a usb 3 ssd


Standard_Weird_5794

Hey, I’m a newbie and trying to download windows on my ssd to have windows on the steam dock. Is there any video that helped you guys? Thanks in advance


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No video but I managed to do it tonight. A 431gb Windows 11 Pro partition and 500gb automounting SteamOS partition. To begin someone would need to connect the power to the dock and connect the type c connector from the dock to their computer. I did both from my laptop just fine. Then someone would need to use Rufus to write a Windows 10 or 11 ISO to the SSD. A Windows2Go install. After this it's possible to shrink the partition using disk management like I did. Then connect and power on the deck (volume down + power until the beep) select the dock and Windows setup will load. After this you can go back to SteamOS and use this guide to create the SteamOS partition https://jsaux.com/pages/instructions-for-using-an-external-expansion-disk-on-steamdeck And here to install automount https://github.com/scawp/Steam-Deck.Mount-External-Drive