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what's up guys Jays $0.02 here we're going to be doing some r-tx testing here really soon and one of the things that we've done to kind of make testing easier for us is we keep all of our game library while these most of the big games on an external drive that we can move from system to system we keep this updated which means any system we plug it into will have an updated game library the problem is it's only a 250 gig and we quickly exceeded that so we're gonna be updating our storage to a 500 gig which should be big enough for all the main titles we test when new graphics card launches so I thought why not make a tutorial to help you guys see how to actually set up an external drive for your game library how to clone the drive and how to initialize a new drive on your system something that all goes hand-in-hand all three of this has to be done today and something I asked quite often from people as I plugged in a new Drive Windows doesn't see it what's going on so we can kind of kill three birds with well three different stones but whatever I digress we're making one video showing you guys inclusive inclusively how did this intro went down hill quick let's just get to it do you want to be cooler do you want to be more desirable well you're in luck because right now you can own your very own JS to send swag and immediately be the cool kid on the block max out your sex appeal by following the link down below so we're gonna use matte cream reflect for our cloning and this is not a sponsored video by them this is a brand I've used for a while because it's free which is the best part especially if you only want to do this once or twice why pay for a license especially a monthly so matte cream reflect you need to download that I'll put a link to it in the description below also too we're going to be using USB 3.0 sleds for our drives because like I said we move it from system to system so this will work though with any Drive installed in any system where it's do a regular SATA cable or some sort of USB like this USB three nvme you know external drive enclosures doesn't matter as long as the system sees it as a drive so we'll reflect so we're gonna go ahead and take our USB and plug it into our USB 3.0 hub here which we have just so lovely hanging off the front of our system very pretty and OCD well triggering to be honest but that's besides the point and we're gonna plug in this guy right here as well now if we go to our file explorer right here you can see that our external SSD 256 only has 17 gigabytes left but you might notice that the 500 gigabyte I mentioned is not showing up the 237 gigabyte system drive that's on here is our main Windows Drive which has the windows logo and then our 1.8 or our 2 terabyte technically Western Digital black drive is kind of our main storage drive and you can see the 500 gig that we have in this enclosure is not showing up so if that's the case for you and you have a drive that shows up in the BIOS but doesn't show up in Windows it's pretty simple go to your Start menu type disk and you'll have create and format hard disk partitions pop up now here we should actually see our drive but it's not so here it is right here it's unallocated what that means is the windows can see the drive but it doesn't have any allocation set to it there's no drive path there's no letter none of that it's pretty simple right click new simple volume click Next you can tell it how you can actually set a volume size to so you can partition this if you want obviously we want it one partition click Next and then you can give it a drive letter in this case it automatically assigned F because that's the next sequential order in our current Drive lettering and we're just gonna go with that leave everything as default you can name it here if you want so we'll call it external games just like it says on the letter on the label there perform a quick format finish that's now blue it now shows up down here in the bottom right hand corner and we are good to go so next thing we're gonna go ahead and do here and you can see right here in our File Explorer we're gonna open up Mac real reflect so the drive that's red here is the one that's nearly full we're gonna click the check box right here and then we're gonna click on here clone this disc now this is our source as you can see right there now you can actually do this with a Windows 10 drive as well we know the windows partition the windows exact copy of the drive can actually move to another one that's another video I'm gonna doing another date because the Windows 10 is actually kind of picky in the way that that works some software handles it very easily some other software you have to set some perimeters and if you don't set that right then it will copy but then windows won't actually boot you'll continue to get a blue screen so we will if you guys want to see me do that video make sure you comment down below to please show you guys how to do the windows 10 clone but now we need to set a destination so select the disk and we want the one that says right there external games and that is it so pretty much now we're just gonna click finish we can name it if you want to name this the backup definition and what macron will actually do will save these perimeters this setting into its own file that you can then pull in and run the task again this is useful for you to do things like backups or regular scheduled backups on a system so if you had multiple drives in your system you could just tell it run this every night and every night it will have a revolving backup again a free piece of software that does that pretty amazing we're gonna go ahead and just call this again we're gonna click OK and now it is going ahead it says fault warning this Drive will be overwritten of course that's what we want and now it is just going to go through and do the cloning process obviously this is going to depend on how big your drive is how fast your connection is how fast your source is and how fast your deaths are you said your destination so think about it this way we're running through a USB 3.0 a decent amount of bandwidth but obviously not as fast as if we were cloning like say a and m dot 2 to an m dot 2 that would be much much faster if we were writing to a spinning disk a backup then your max right speed is going to be the max or the max copy speed is the max right speed of the destination does that make sense so if you have a faster Drive writing to a slower Drive your max transfer rate is going to be the maximum write speed of your train of your destination so in this case because we're running two SATA 500 megabyte per second drive through USB 3.0 it should actually transfer pretty quickly but it could take up to a half an hour or an hour or more so we'll go ahead and spare you guys that will come back when it's done a few moments later so that took 25 minutes and 13 seconds to complete you hit okay I had verified selected which is why it took a little bit longer because I have it verify all the information and now we can close that now if we close reflects and we open up our File Explorer here check this out you can see wait a minute all I did was copy over the same 230 eight gigabytes with only 17.7 left that's because math Korean basically does a bit for bit clone of the drive and the partition that it sees so even if I had a two terabyte SSD sitting right here it would still show two hundred and thirty eight gigabytes with that unallocated partition left over so we're gonna go ahead and unplug our source drive we can actually format that once we confirm everything's working here and then put that back into rotation but if we go back to the disk management tool which I showed you earlier you'll be able to see that the rest of that partition of that Drive is sitting there unallocated so we can basically extend the initial partition that's sitting over here so basically just right-click on the blue section not the black one if you create a new simple volume now you've created a new partition we want to extend the one that it's currently existing to the rest of the drive so right click click extend volume click Next and then we can just go ahead and say finish because we didn't give it an amount it just said basically use the rest of the drive there it is now we've got the full 465 gigabytes so as you can see right there 245 gigabytes free of our 465 gigs so we basically doubled the drive as you would expect right click and we're gonna rename this back to our external den soups I put an s in there games there we go so if you look at my external driver here you can see it's already got the Steam library there with the steam apps and the common folder which is where all of your games are installed because we did a clone however you if you were installing a fresh external drive that you want to start moving your games to or install on then what you're gonna see is we're about to show you right now is exactly going to pertain to you so we're gonna do is go over to steam click the steam button and as you can see none of my games are installed none of them are white they're all grayed out because basically steam is saying here's the games you own but none of them are installed we're gonna click on the steam button click on settings go to the downloads and then click on steam library folders number the fault you're gonna see a steam library installed on your C Drive or whatever your main drive is where your operating system resides and that's by default you can't get rid of it you can't delete it it forces to be at least one install location otherwise the program like Steam wouldn't know what to do with anything so that's a default but if you followed my advice on budget builds and you've got a small SSD chances are that Drive is gonna be full or you're trying to avoid filling it up which is why you're installing to either a second drive or in our case an external that we want to take with us wherever we go so if you click on add library folder if you click the drop down you can see all the drives that exist on your system are listed right here so the D Drive which is where things were before that spinning optical or that spinning hard drive and then the G Drive which is where our external drive is right here and that is where we already have games installed so all I need to do right now is just highlight where it says Steam library so basically you can see it made a path here G Steam library and basically now we're telling it to install games there but what's gonna happen with steam it's gonna see that games are already installed there and it's gonna automatically populate them inside of our gaming list so far cry 5 is their hit man's their Metro last light rise of the Tomb Raider and everything is updated because we I actually keep this drive updated on a pretty regular basis but it's pretty simple I mean the same thing as basically happens with origin although ordinate origins got one additional step when you actually give it the new save location where the game files are located you've got to go and tell it to download and install that title so if we have battlefield 4 sitting on our drive origins not going to automatically say hey battlefield 4 is there when you point to the drive it's when you tell it to download and it starts moving file as it goes wait a minute these files are here it will validate the files and then just populate the game in your folder but that's pretty much it that now means that this Drive has our game library on it and we can take this with us and as long as we keep it updated any system we plug this into and point to this drive our game library will be ready to go so this is very useful if you are traveling you have a laptop that maybe doesn't have a lot of storage on it but you can get yourself a one or two terabyte SSD at a well you know one terabyte SSD would hold my entire game library that I've got which would be plenty big and it has the speed of USB 3.0 or 3.1 if you want to do an nvme SSD through USB 3.1 type C many laptops have USB type-c and so do desktops now so that's an even faster communication but I find that just a standard USB 3.0 is more than enough when it comes to gaming so anyway that was just a quick tutorial I wanted to make because I've seen people ask me how we move game libraries around you have to reinstall your games and since we're getting ready to have to move it between three systems for RTX launch I want to have my game library in one place rather than dealing with updates on three systems which really kind of sucks so that's that you have any more tutorials you'd like me to cover make sure you sound off in the comments below or hit me up on Twitter at JS to sense I'm extremely active on Twitter probably more active than I should be Twitter is kind of dangerous the Internet's dangerous for mice for my morale anyway at times so let me know what other tutorials you want me to cover or video topics as we prepare for this holiday season it's a good one for PC builders and q4 of 2018 it's exciting get excited cuz I am so excited