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excellent what's up guys welcome back to Pauls hardware if you've been watching my channel recently you've probably spotted my beginners instructional tutorial series about how to build a new gaming PC for yourself get it up and running I started off with a $500 build and a complete step-by-step guide on how to put it all together I followed that up with a $750 build and upgrading the $500 build with new components and making it faster I also followed that up with comparing those two systems against each other and some benchmark battles so that was fun too and then finally I also did a first 5 things you should do with a new PC built kind of taking it from the build is constructed stage to the getting the UEFI set up getting Windows installed and getting everything configured so it's going to actually work can be a functional computer for you today's video is a follow-up to that video the first 5 things I'm doing 3 additional things that I think you guys should do with a new PC build and I actually going to start off with an apology because in my first 5 things video I kind of did an oversight a mistake if you will I was mistaken about how Windows installation works on a kind of a nitpicky little thing but I think it's something that bears a little bit more explanation and correction but before I get into that I want to point out that for today's video other than all the stuff that I've talked about in those previous videos that you'll need such as the computer at a keyboard and mouse and a monitor and an internet connection for today's projects the three things you will need that Windows 10 USB installer that you made perhaps in the previous video and then I'm also going to be working with an external drive which I've also encouraged you guys to get I actually have an SSD one terabyte external connected via a USB 3 adapter which works because it's really fast but if you have something like an external mechanical drive or something like that just make sure that it's sizeable enough to store a backup image of the installation of Windows you have and perhaps even to start up some games because I'm going to be going into some steam configuration stuff too but first back to that correction of my mistake here is the UEFI as I've already explained it's UEFI not a BIOS in here is where we went into before to tell the computer to boot not off of the drives that are installed but to boot off of this Windows 10 USB installer that I'm so I'm going to plug this in right now I'm pretty sure that's not going to be just recognized immediately so let me restart really quick and get back into the bio so that that USB installer' actually is recognized I'm tapping deletes again just as the system boots up to access the BIOS and there it is so now over here on the right side we can see the windows boot manager and that's what is created when you install Windows 10 it puts a little boot manager on to the BIOS we also have the SSD that I installed windows on to and then we have two options here for USB the disc that I just installed USB disk 2.0 and USB mode or that same USB disk in it UEFI mode and here is where I made that fundamental mistake as I was setting up Windows before if you are changing your boot priority which you can either do directly here in the BIOS and then reboot and save or you can do what I did before which was to use the motherboards boot shortcut key which happens to be f11 for this motherboard other motherboards have this as well so I'm tapping f11 right now so system starts but this will allow me to just tell it hey just for this one time go and boot off of something else other than the SSD for example so here is really the correction instead of choosing USB like I did without really mentioning it or anything choose UEFI that will install a new efi mode and it will just do a couple kind of fundamental different things when it actually installs Windows basically tying in with the UEFI functionality of the motherboard and what the upshot is here is you're going to get much faster boot times in fact this system cut a good five six seven seconds off the boot time it is still booting pretty fast before is maybe 15 to 20 seconds now it's like 10 to 15 so that's pretty cool but anyway once you do that it will take you back into the standard Windows environment and from here you can go back to my first five things you should do with a new pc build video and go through the installation just like I told you before so that is step one and just in case you guys have already installed Windows and you're thinking to yourself well you jerk why didn't you tell me about this the first time well let me show you how you can tell what a mut Modi actually installed it so now that I am booted back into Windows I am just going to check out my configuration that the storage is set up in because this will actually be done automatically I'm going to right click on this PC and go to manage by the way this will be done automatically by the Windows 10 setup and just by taking a quick glance at this in Disk Management you can actually see how it's set up and whether you're in a old-school bios mode or updated UEFI mode and basically the recovery partition right here is what you look at 450 megabytes is the size that you will see if you're in UI ufi UEFI mode you will also see an additional efi system partition right there and then you'll see the remainder of your hard drive to actually use usable space on the hard drive or SSD or whatever use and right there if you did not install in efi mode you will see a 500 megabyte partition right here and you will not see any fi system partition and that's just a quick way to look and check what you're actually set up in now if you did not install in efi mode then you're gonna have to go back and reinstall windows if you really want to do that but i would say if you didn't don't worry about it again it works just fine i've used lots of systems in that configuration and really the the fundamental benefit you get is just a few extra seconds faster when the system boots up for the first time which again is nice but that was just bugging me it was bugging me so much that as I was installing it just didn't move that down I would like to say one last thank you to anyone who commented in the first five things you should do when it's long a new PC build who said hey Paul shouldn't you have chosen to eat UEFI mode and I was like should I have and then I had to research it and I was like I was like I have been wrong about this so that's part of the fun of making videos about technology on YouTube is eventually you will get something wrong and then people will call you out very quickly on it but I like being called up because I want to I want to be correct damnit about the stuff I'm trying to teach you guys now let's move out to thing number two which is making a system backup image I think this is a really useful thing to do for anyone who is installing Windows for the first time simply because if you've been following along with all of these steps as I've been doing for you guys as far as installing windows everything from booting off of this drive to plopping Windows onto your SSD or drives that you're booting off of too even the little things you might do with the operating system like changing the folder options so that Windows doesn't hile hide file extensions that kind of thing all of that stuff if you were to go back reformat your computer and reinstall windows again you would have to do it again which isn't a huge deal but it's just it's going to take you time you know an hour - depending on how particular your you are about everything so what this going to do is basically take a snapshot of your system however you have it set up and then it will allow you to recover from that snapshot whenever you need to so so just click the Windows button and go up to backup and restore I just search for backup it's called backup and restore Windows 7 you'll find this right here you will at this point want to take your external drive and plug that guy in so that it will be recognized as a device you can backup to and then from here you go over sorry that popped up go over to create a system image it will automatically look for the backup devices that you have available it sees my single drives that I've plugged in right here that's the only one tells you how much is free on it and then we're just going to hit next here it will tell you the backup location and also tell you that any existing system images from this machine might be overwritten and I've also tell you what it's backing up which is those two partitions as well as the C Drive which is what you need you can also do an exclusion option here if you have additional drives plugged in it will let you exclude them I don't have anything else connected so you just click start backup and it will go through and it will create to that backup I already went and did this yesterday so the backup is actually here in Windows image backup folder on this Drive and there you can see a couple backups that I've done and now real quickly let's run through actually restoring from this backup after you've created it so I will take my Windows installer because we're going to boot off of this and use this to do the recovery and plug it back into my computer here at the back and then I will reboot and once again tap the f11 button to get into that boot quick boot environment and tell its to again boot in efi mode because that's what we want to do it will go through EFI boot operations like you have seen it do before and now instead of clicking install now going to move down and click repair your computer in this Windows 10 operating system environments that will take you to the next page which will give you a few options we're going to choose troubleshoot and then from there choose system image recovery and again make sure that that external drive wherever you have the image copy to is on there it will tell you to choose the target operating system you're going for Windows 10 and then it will scan for the image and it will automatically find it if it's done in the standard way that we have done it just now from here you can just click Next and bear in mind that if you are restoring this image onto an existing SSD or drive or whatever that's on there it's going to delete everything on that drive so bear that in mind here going to do an exclusion until to exclude the USB Drive that we're currently booting off of which is kind of nice tell it to format every partition disks and then go ahead and click Next and finish it will tell you that all just will be restored and formatted yes and this will only take a few minutes after it finishes you can reboot your system and then everything will be exactly as it was when you created that system image it's a really convenient way to kind of get your system set up exactly how you want it and then have that backup image there in case something goes wrong if you get a virus or anything like that you're just up restore from the image and you're after the races once again let's move on to the third thing though which I think you guys might find useful this is Steam setup because again if you're building a gaming PC probably want to play games on it and getting Windows setup is one thing but you got to get the games loaded up and chances are if you're gonna play games on a gaming PC you're going to be using steam at some point granted is not by any means the only exclusive game platform for the PC but it is definitely the most expansive and everything so go and download the client first or steam powered comm is where you get that click install steam it will download it'll guy install steam now and you'll run that and it will do automatic updates I'm also going to plug in my accounts and do the automatic account activation but I won't show you that stuff I'll be right back in just seconds with Steam set up properly okay so I actually reinstalled steam here just so I could show you guys how this is working so when you first install steam you will have no games and what I'm going to try to show you guys right now is how to get games onto this computer without having to redownload them again because games can be 40 50 60 70 80 gigs maybe you have like a cap on your bandwidth or something like that you don't want to redownload them maybe you've already downloaded them somewhere else and you just want to play them faster so popping them onto this system can be Kopp can be done via copying them from an older system or something like that but you have to do it in a specific way and then also setting up additional Steam libraries on the system will allow you to for instance choose when you install a game for the first time I want to install this on the SSD so it loads really fast or I want to install this on the hard drive because I know it's a big game and it's going to take up a lot of space and I want to put it on the 2 terabyte drive so I won't use up all the space on my SSD that's the basic decision you might made might make so basically we're going to go to settings and that is where we're going to be doing most of this stuff so first off let's make a new library on this system so if we go back to our computer we can see here the SSD that we've installed steam onto we also have our two terabyte storage drive I just plug that back in so it would be recognized again and again my first five things video I showed you guys how to actually set up that drive so it's accessible as it is right now I just unplugged my Windows installer because that doesn't need to be there and here is my external drive that I have plugged in this has some games on it but but I'll show you how to set up an external drive to use as a library or also to copy games onto an existing drive so here we'll make a new folder and we'll call games and then I like to go in there and make a new folder called Steam library very because that's the default name the steam likes to use for its steam library so now that that exists we will go over here to downloads on the steam settings choose steam library folders and we'll see that there is the default one under Program Files this is on the SSD the c drive that's already there and how much space is used since we don't have again any games installed and nothing is there so we click add a library folder change the drive from our c drive over to our so we'll go to the D Drive we found our games folder that we put there and choose Steam library and hit and now we have two library folders here on the C Drive and on the D Drive so now if we were to go to install a game it would prompt us and say where do you want to install to and that's where you can make that decision but let's say we already have a game downloaded somewhere and we want to plop it onto that drive and not worry about downloading it ourselves so for that we will go back here actually the first thing we want to do is exit steam close it out of the system tray down there let's go into our storage drive in our games folder and our Steam library and we have it right there you'll note it makes a steam apps folder there and then we're going to fill that out with a little bit more stuff in just a moment let's also go to my external drive here and again I use the same layout here so I know where stuff is I have a games folder and I have a Steam library in there that will also have steam apps and then in there in the steamapps folder this one called common and then that is where all of your games are so we're going to duplicate that folder over here since we don't have any games installed that common folder hasn't been made but we can make it just make sure you name it common just as the normal one is and then let's take a game let's find a game that's maybe a reasonable size let's do chivalry so we just take the whole chivalry folder from here where it was installed before drag it over there and we'll wait just a few moments for it to copy here's a benefit of having a SSD external drive is it copies it well that's not too bad we're copying it to mechanical drive so it's going at about the maximum speed that that mechanical drive can write at and now chivalry is copied okay so let's just close that out let's go back over to steam load up again and from here chivalry will not appear as installed that's assuming of course that you own this game - you have to own the game it doesn't appear as installed but we can hit install here now and then we need to pay special attention here to where to install it - and again we're going to go back to that D folder that we already did it because since we put the game here we want it to try to install there and then it's going to actually discover stuff so we'll it will initially start say creating stuff and that'll be like discovering like oh we found the game there and then it will go through and discover all those files then in a few moments it should pop up as being there and available to play we'll give it a second ok so I had to double check something really quick bad thing because I was pretty sure that I was doing this properly and then it went and started to download an update what I realized is that the version I copied over here of chivalry is has not been updated in a while so the one I copied over was like 2.5 or 3 gigs but the current existing version of chivalry is 8 gigs so if you copy a game and it's not to date it will recognize the files but then it will attempt to update that game to whatever the latest version is so chivalry in this particular case happens to need an additional five gigs of downloads face but it is working and it is downloading and now once that download finishes this game will be installed on our 2 terabyte drive I also brought faster-than-light over here just because it was fast downloaded I wanted to confirm that everything was working properly and it was alright so let's move on to the next step which is adding an additional library of something that already exists which is actually a little bit more simple so that should be easy well again jump over here back to settings and then we'll go over to downloads and we'll again hit the Steam library folders and here's where I use a technique very often to take a single Drive and move it from computer to computer and run the games off of that drive again with an external SSD like the one I have it works really good they all have to do in order to add that additional library it said add library folder go to the drive I have that the games installed on to which is the F Drive in this case again go into games and choose that Steam library folder and hit select and suddenly I have 14 more games installed Dada there they are but then I'll tell you the amount of space and how much space is taken up and all that good stuff I make can hit close and okay and then when we go back to our library we will see many many more games that are installed that have been downloaded and are there and should either be ready to play or often you know when you click play on them they'll have they might have to do a quick update or something like that but you will avoid the problem of having to completely redownload the game and it's going to save you time and hopefully so you know save you from your bandwidth cap if you happen to be in a situation where you have one of those but that's all for this video guys I really hope it has helped you a little bit more thank you for bearing with me as I have corrected myself but hopefully added a little bit more useful information to this one as well to make it well more useful I suppose anyway hit the thumbs up button if you enjoyed this links to everything I have done as well as the past videos in this tutorial series are down in the description thank you all so much for your feedback on this one I will be back more with more videos very soon and we'll see you next time