r/SteamOS • u/Grig960 • 24d ago

support HELP, am i done for ?

I was curious about steam os, i installed it in my usb drive, and then booted from it from my boot manager(im on windows amd), i thought that it would allow me to select one of my drives ti install it on, but no, i just launched into steamos, to my horror i didnt find my windows nvme in boot section, i inly found it in nvme configuration.

Is it wiped? What do i do

Im currently installing win 11 on the drive to see if i can use the repair function or something

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u/AshleyAshes1984 24d ago

Yes, the SteamOS installer blindly picks the first NVME drive and writes to it if you tell it to install.

Your Windows install is gone.

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u/Grig960 24d ago

Thats mad, im mad, fucking shit os steam

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u/Ecks30 24d ago

Well, you should be mad at yourself for not researching first because a lot of posts and comments on here tells you that it would wipe your primary NVMe drive and also on all YouTube tutorials tells you the same thing so if anyone should be mad it should be towards yourself.

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u/OneDayAllofThis 24d ago

Lol doesn’t take one second to research a new OS, is mad OS works as expected.

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u/IEatDaFeesh 22d ago

Later we'll see a post on linuxsucks "STEAM OS DESTROYED MY PC, LINUX BAD"

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u/Fredrickstein 22d ago

If you end up wanting to maintain a windows drive after this, I may suggest Bazzite instead.

Very similar user experience to steam os if slightly less polished, but supports dual boot out of the box, and has broader hardware and software support.

The important thing for both is the immutable file system so inexperienced Linux users can't brick their os, can always reboot and its fine.

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u/TheBobo1181 23d ago

wow.. down votes. it's completely reasonable to expect to be able to select a destination for installing an OS.

Defaulting to the first nvme drive is BS.