Ok, I searched and am struggling to find out if I can do what I want, so hopefully it hasn’t been asked (many times) before.
I’ve had my 64GB deck for over a year now and decided to finally add more storage since I got tired of swapping SD cards and keeping track of them. Sidenote: Thanks to all the sacrificed microSD cards on this sub. Definitely served as a reminder to me and saved mine!
So I had the deck’s original 64GB ssd sitting there and remembered my desktop has a 2nd M.2 slot so I put this in. After an evening of setting things up again and moving games from card to internal, I realized I never backed up all my emulator saves right when I was about to format the drive in windows. I was playing through a number of games, so I had a lot of progress. I don’t have an external M2 case and can’t justify buying one.
Is there an easy way to access the original drive’s contents? It’s showing up as 2 drives. Both with 31.2MB of 31.9MB Free. Both have root folders of EFI and SteamOS. I understand the deck is ext4/BTFRS, but don’t know how to read the content of the drive as what I CAN see in windows is presumably just the boot information.
A USB C NVME enclosure should cost you less than $20. That’s not a huge investment compared to the cost of a Steam Deck.