Jay's two cents here.

We're gonna be doing some arty ex testing here really soon.

And one of the things that we've done, the kind of testing easier for us is we keep all of our game library What leaves 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 haven't 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 it tutorial to help you guys see how to actually set up an external drive 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.

This has to be done today, and something asked quite often from people is I plugged it into 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'll make one video showing you guys inclusive inclusively.

How did this intro went down?

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Makarim reflect for our cloning, and this is not a sponsor video by them.

This is a brand I've used for a while because it's free, which is the best part, especially don't want to do this once or twice.

Why pay for a license, especially a monthly?

So Makarim reflect You need to download that.

I'll put a link to it in the description below.

Also to we're gonna be using ah 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 due, a regular state, a cable or some sort of us be like this USB three.

Envy me.

No external drive enclosures.

Doesn't matter as long as the system sees it as a drive, so will reflect.

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 from our system very pretty and O c d.

Triggering to be honest.

But that's besides the point.

And we're gonna plug in this guy right here is Well, now, if you go to our file Explorer right here, you can see that our external SST to 56 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 are two terabyte, technically Western Digital Black Dr is kind of our main storage drive, and you can see the 500 gig that we have in this enclosure.

It's 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 disc 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 analogue Kate ID.

What that means is the windows could see the drive, but it doesn't have any allocations set to.

There's no Dr Path.

There's no letter.

None of that's pretty simple, right?

Click.

New Simple volume Click.

Next, you can tell how you could actually set a volume size, too, so you can partition this if you want.

Obviously wanted 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 Dr lettering, and we're just gonna go with that.

Everything is default.

You could name it here if you want, so we'll call external game just like it says on the letter on the label.

There, perform a quick format finish that's now blew 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 could see right here in our file.

Explorer, we're gonna open up.

Makarim reflects.

So the drive that's red here is the one that's nearly full.

We're gonna click the checkbox right here, and then we're gonna click on here, Clone this disk.

Now, this is our source, as you could see right there.

Now, we can actually do this with the Windows 10 drive as well.

You know, the windows partition, the windows exact copy of the drive can actually move to another one.

That's another video.

I'm doing another date because their windows tens 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 will actually boot.

You'll continue to get a blue screen, so we will If you guys want to see me do that, video makes 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 the backup definition.

And what Makram actually do was 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 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, Okay?

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 sources and how fast your your air.

You said your destination.

So think about it this way.

We're running through a USB three point.

Oh, a decent amount of bandwidth, but obviously not as fast as if we were cloning like, say, an m dot to tow n m dot to.

That would be much, much faster if we were writing to a spinning disc as a backup.

Then you're Max, right?

Speed is going to be the Mex or the max.

Copy speed is the max right speed of the destination.

Does that make sense?

If you have a faster drive right into a slower drive, your Mac's transfer rate is going to be the maximum right speed of your destination.

So in this case, because we're running to save 500 megabyte per second drives your USB three point.

Oh, it should actually transfer pretty quickly, but it could take up to 1/2 an hour or an hour or more.

So we'll go ahead and spare you guys that we'll come back when it's done a few moments later.

It's not 25 minutes and 13 seconds to complete.

You hit okay, I had verify selected, which is why I took a little bit longer because I haven't verified 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 238 gigabytes of only 17.7 left.

That's because Macri, um 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 238 gigabytes with the analogue hated partition leftovers.

We're gonna go ahead and unplug our source, Dr Weaken, actually format that once we confirm everything's working here and then put that back into rotation.

But if we go back to the disc management tool, which I showed you earlier, you'll be able to see that the rest of that partition of that Dr is sitting there analogue Kate ID.

So we could basically extend the initial partition that 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 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 used 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'd expect, right Click.

And we're gonna rename this back to our external Dern's readiness in their games.

There we go.

So if you look my external driver here, you can see it's already got the steam library there with steam maps and the common folder, which is where all of your games were installed because we did a clone.

However, if you were installing a fresh external drive that you want to start moving your games to or install on than what you're going to see is we're about to show you right now is exactly gonna 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 were installed.

None of them are white.

They're all great out because basically, steam is saying, Here's a game, Joan, 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.

But the fault you're going to see a steam library installed on your C drive or whatever.

Your main drive is where your operating system resides, and that's why the fault.

You can't get rid of it.

You can't delete it.

It forces to be at least one installed 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 exists 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 could 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 going to see that game's already installed there, and it's gonna automatically populate them inside of our gaming list.

So far, Cry five is there Hit Man's, their Metro last light rise of the Tomb Raider, and everything is updated because we I actually keep this dr updated on a pretty regular basis, but it's pretty simple.

I mean, the same thing is basically happens with origin.

All the orders of 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 four sitting on our drive origins Not gonna automatically say, Hey, Battlefield four is there.

When you point to the drive, it's when you tell it to download and it starts moving files, 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 as long as we keep it updated.

Any system, we plug this into a 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 SST at a Polina one terabyte SST would hold my entire game library that I've got, which would be plenty big.

And it has the speed of us be 3.0 or 3.1 if you want to do an envy me dot s s S D through USB 3.1 type.

See, 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.

Do you have to reinstall your games?

And since we're getting ready to have to move it between three systems for our T X launch, I want to have my game library in one place rather than deal with updates on three systems, which really kind of sucks.

So that's that you have more tutorials you like me to cover, makes you sound off in the comments below or hit me up on Twitter at Jason.

Since I'm extremely active on Twitter, probably more active than I should be.

Twitter's kind of dangerous the Internet's dangerous for my for my morale anyway at time.

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 in Q four of 2018.

It's exciting.