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How to Dual Boot on Steam Deck – Windows 11 X SteamOS – Manual Bootloader Method
Turn your Steam Deck into a dual-boot machine capable of booting both SteamOS and Windows 11 from the internal drive via your own custom bootloader that you can adjust to your liking.
What do you need:
1x Steam Deck (of course!)
3x USB sticks – 8 GB minimum (recommended)
1x USB-C adapter
1x USB keyboard and mouse (recommended)
All download resources (listed below)
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Chapters
00:00 – Introduction to the equipment
03:47 – USB for SteamOS, Windows, GParted
04:27 – SteamOS Recovery – Reinstall
07:32 – GParted – Internal disk partitioning
10:27 a.m. – Installing Windows 11 on the 2nd partition
3:09 p.m. – Installing Windows 11 drivers from Valve
17:12 – Custom bootloader
18:17 – SteamOS Konsole – Install rEFInd
22:06 – Configuring Windows rEFInd – CMD, Explorer
28:14 – Fixing Windows UEFI logic boot issue
29:21 – Prompt Windows to start rEFInd
31:41 – SteamOS desktop console
33:07 – Custom bootloader retheme
36:16 – Notes
37:16 – Thanks for watching!
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Download resources
SteamOS recovery file – https://steamdeck-images.steamos.cloud/recovery/steamdeck-recovery-2.img.bz2
Windows 11 – https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows11
Windows 10 – https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10
GParted – https://gparted.org/download.php
Steam Deck Windows Drivers (Official) – https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/6121-ECCD-D643-BAA8
Explorer – https://explorerplusplus.com/ (64-bit recommended)
rEFInd Minimal Theme – https://github.com/evanpurkhiser/rEFInd-minimal
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Further reading
Rodsbooks rEFInd – https://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/
Installing rEFInd from Windows – https://schdck.github.io/Installing-refind-from-Windows-10
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Special thanks to TheOwlOwlHootHoot on Reddit and Discord for bringing this to our attention and providing help installing rEFInd Windows.
Be sure to use the further reading above to better understand how it all works between our EFI files.
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