Please help!!!!!

[Failureddy]

I tried to install windows on my deck and accidentally reformatted my hard drive. Now I wanna get steam is back, I got rufus and made a bootable USB and added steam recovery image to it, but whenever I go to boot menu and boot from my USB it gets stuck on "assuming drive cache:write through" and never progresses.i don't know what to do because I don't understand tech much. The youtube tutorials don't cover this! I hope someone can help me by tomorrow...
You can ask more questions about this if you need more info to help.

[@R+5]

try to make again the live usb with "ventoy" if you have a windows or linux laptop or pc, or "balena etcher". the advantage of ventoy is that once you tell the program to make bootable the usb of your choice, you can just drag and drop any iso of any os into a folder-directory, and see all options in a menu when you launch it. balena works similar to rufus, but is more simple and does everything it needs automatically (but like rufus, you are limited to one os).

https://www.ventoy.net

https://etcher.balena.io/

now, about the error, start with your search engine to find stuff about errors in linux or anything (i recommend duckduckgo, but other non-google options may also be better). if you read a bit about the forums and comments, it seems that particular error can be ignored safely, but if you are still not sure if everything is ok with your live usb, first try to make it again.

check if your error looks similar to this one:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/596122/dmesg-assuming-drive-cache-write-through

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=162471

maybe a problem happened when you were making the liveusb, so maybe you just need to make it again.

[Failureddy]

the error looked like the second one

[Failureddy]

also, whenever I used balena etcher, it would get stuck at 0.40%, I left it on overnight and nothing changed...

[Failureddy]

so about the error, do I just let it sit, and wait?

[Failureddy]

I tried using balena etcher and now I have error code: "can't access tty: job control turned off"

[Failureddy]

update: we got past the errors, but now it's loading the desktop menu where you choose what to do with ur steam deck. the loading wheel isn't moving anymore, but I'm just gonna wait.

[Failureddy]

it eventually stopped loading and it's now a black screen with my cursor.

[Mahjik]

Just to confirm, it sounds like you created the image, and were able to boot to the recovery Desktop. You just cannot 'start' the recovery, correct?

[Failureddy]

no, it never came onto the boot recovery desktop.

[Failureddy]

it produced more error codes some how

[TheTrippyHippie]

Originally posted by the real jeff:

it produced more error codes some how

I am not sure if will help but it might help to get your Steam deck in a usable state and might even help after you have installed it to reinstall the original steam OS

worth a try at least.

https://docs.bazzite.gg/General/Installation_Guide/Installing_Bazzite_for_Steam_Deck/

My thinking is if you can install it once you have, there is an option to factory reset the steamdeck, after which you could then try and reinstall the factory image.

things like that can often work.

[Mahjik]

Originally posted by the real jeff:

no, it never came onto the boot recovery desktop.

Try this thread:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1675200/discussions/0/4826187053911536175/