Recently my laptop died. Thankfully, the issue wasn’t the SSD. So I bought an external enclosure, took the SSD out of the laptop, and popped it into the external enclosure. I was hoping at that point, it would “just work”.

I was hoping that when I plug it into my steam deck in desktop mode, it would recognise it and I could get some files off of it. Well, just one file really, my Sims 4 save. But it isn’t recognised at all.

Is there anything I can do to get the save file off of the SSD? I can borrow someone else’s (windows) laptop if necessary, though it didn’t recognise it last time I plugged it in there either.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated!

  • mutual_ayed@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    1 month ago

    Update your steamdeck with the usb drive adapter installed.

    Does the drive show up in bios?

    • Double check that the drive is properly seated
    • That the cables are properly seated, plug in the drive
    • Reboot the deck and get to the bios
    • See if your drive is seen as a boot option.
    • Do not boot to that drive, it’s just to see if you’re seeing the drive.

    Next, you might check to see if it’s in your USB stack. If you have the Linux steam deck, open the terminal and run

    lsusb && lsblk && df -h

    See if the drive shows up there.

    If you’ve got windows running on your steamdeck open an admin terminal and run

    diskmgr.msc

    If your drive doesn’t show up from all of that you might have a dead drive or a faulty adapter. Good luck.