Hi everyone
I’m new here.
I have a steam deck and bought a wd passport external hard drive.
I needed to format the hard drive,
I watched a youtube tuturial and deleted the udf, Because I needed ext file, Of which the option for new partition showed up for 2 options besides ext. Now my hard drive won’t show up when plugged in and in kde partition now highlighted nothing happens.
I’m so bumbed out over this
What do you want to have happened? Do you want to recover the data on the UDF partition?
I was trying to convert UDF to ext4.
Of which has no option MS Dos.
I followed a youtube video and in the video UDF was unmounted and deleted and that person had the option to choose ext4 of which I don’t have ext4 option.
Yes I’m trying to get the UDF file back to my external hard drive
Can you describe what exactly was the process that you did? What software did you use? Do you want to link to the YouTube video that explains how it was done?
To the best of my knowledge there is no way to convert a UDF file system to ext4 file system - in place - while preserving the files. The only way to do it is to create a temporary file system, copy all the files away from the UDF file system, create the ext4 file system and copy the files back.
If you overwrote your UDF file system - that has files on it - with an ext4 file system, the UDF file system itself is very likely not recoverable, but if you did not put any files into the new ext4 file system then there is a possibility to recover at least some of the old files. One way to do it would be to use the testdisk system utility.
Here is the name of the youtube video…
Steam Deck: Install Windows on a bootable microSD card using only the deck
Update…
By following thia tutorial the fetcher program almost damaged my external hdd
All of my games was deleted.
If you ran Balena Etcher and wrote the Windows image on top of your external hard-drive - then your old data is toast.
The video you linked isn’t about converting UDF to ext file - it is about using an empty external storage (the video recommends SD card, but I guess you can use a hard drive) and formatting it to be a Windows system, using Balena Etcher
Balena Etcher (I assume you meant that when you said “fetcher”) does not damage your drive, it just removes everything that was on it and overwrites it with whatever image you asked it to write into the drive.
I think the person who made this video should have made it clear that whatever storage medium you are going to use with Etcher will be completely destroyed, but aside from that - neither the video creator, nor any of the software that was recommended there is responsible for your situation and I believe that the loss of your data was not due to a bug or a problem with any of the software.