Steamdeck-formatted Sd card not recognized by windows

[Roger Calbute]

Hi all,
I use a formatted SD card on the steamdeck, the games work fine.
After installing Emudeck, I migrated the SD card to my PC to transfer the roms. But I can not open the card, Windows only offers me formatted (which I do not want since many Steam games are installed).
Do you have a solution to open SD card on windows? Thank you for your help.

[Bratty Patty]

The used Filesystem from Steam Deck/Linux cannot be used by Windows. Vice versa its ok. I use a external Harddrive with a usb c hub to Copy my files.

[Roger Calbute]

It's ok, I used the free version of this program, mentioned in another post :

https://www.paragon-software.com/en/home/linuxfs-windows/#

[Jake Sully]

Originally posted by Roger Calbute:

It's ok, I used the free version of this program, mentioned in another post :

https://www.paragon-software.com/en/home/linuxfs-windows/#

link you given says 404. but yeah like Bratty said linux file system has never worked in windows execpt for FAT32, exFAT. But EXT2, EXT3, EXT4 etc won't appear in windows since windows does not support it.

[Jâbbérwôkkï]

Windows & Steam OS can read exfat file system. If your PC can't read the card now try:
1) insert into pc
2) right-click on start (win 10 /Win 11) & select disc management
3) locate the sd card, right-click & select delete volume
4)right-click the card again & select new simple volume, follow the prompts & when it says format file system type select fat.

It should be readable by deck & Windows now.