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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/Latter-Ad-1523 on 2025-07-29 03:54:31+00:00.
Original Title: bought a used lcd 512 steam deck on friday from a pawn shop, installed some games, but previous owners had a root password. so i am doing an in menu factory reset. its been going for about an hour and is only 52% and the little timer is way off
i removed all the games the previous person had and i likely installed maybe 300GB worth of games my self, is the amount of data on this thing causing this process to go so slow?
is it normal to take this long? and the little eta timer keeping all over the place
im still in the learning and experimenting phase of this awesome unit, so i am ok with doing things wrong a few times, i even might install my 2TB nvme 2230 drive at some point in the next few days.
anyways i feel like im watching paint dry, might even go for a long walk, but i am getting anxious about this process taking hours.
I work in IT but know very little about linux, with windows it would take 20 minutes to wipe an ssd and install windows, get on the network and start updating drivers, but that is with bootable media, i suppose if you used a recovery partition and factory image it likely will be a lot longer. is that whats going on here some how?