setting up PC for the first time

[Folktale]

I got my PC assembled yesterday, and I am currently waiting for my monitor and UPS to arrive, maybe tomorrow. Now if I happen to use my computer tomorrow, I want to be sure what steps and things to keep in mind while installing new windows 10. 

 

Is there any settings you need to make in BIOS before installing Windows? Can anyone give a good guide here on how to proceed in this matter? I have the Gigabyte AB350 Gaming 3 motherboard.

[genexis_x]

How many storage do you have? (HDD and SSD)

[Folktale]

Just now, ZM Fong said:

How many storage do you have? (HDD and SSD)

I have only one HDD of 1TB. I will be making a partition of one 250GB for my boot partition and the rest for storage. The RAM is not in the QVL list of the motherboard.

[NTDaws]

2 minutes ago, ZM Fong said:

How many storage do you have? (HDD and SSD)

dat grammer doe...

Um make sure when you boot from your cd or usb, use UEFI. Yeah that's pretty much it.

[genexis_x]

How do you want to install Windows? By USB drive or DVD drive?

[iRileyx]

No need to partition the HDD for boot and storage, and even so you won't need anywhere near 250gb for the boot partition.

 

Plus you'll probably want to add an SSD in there at some point, so its easier to leave partitions alone until you do.

[Folktale]

1 minute ago, ZM Fong said:

How do you want to install Windows? By USB drive or DVD drive?

USB. I didn't install any optical Drive

[Folktale]

1 minute ago, RKRiley said:

No need to partition the HDD for boot and storage, and even so you won't need near 250 for the boot partition.

that's a really bad idea, innit?

[Damascus]

USB is really easy, get the .is win 10 file from Microsoft. 

[Damascus]

Just now, Folktale said:

that's a really bad idea, innit?

Not at all, I never partition my hdds

[Folktale]

2 minutes ago, Being Delirious said:

dat grammer doe...

Um make sure when you boot from your cd or usb, use UEFI. Yeah that's pretty much it.

use UEFI? I didn't get it. Isn't the BIOS now called UEFI with mouse support and all that?

[Folktale]

1 minute ago, Damascus said:

USB is really easy, get the .is win 10 file from Microsoft. 

I have that. I was just asking for some BIOS settings that I see people make like changing something in HDD page of BIOS and all that

[genexis_x]

6 minutes ago, Being Delirious said:

dat grammer doe...

Um make sure when you boot from your cd or usb, use UEFI. Yeah that's pretty much it.

ya ya don't complain about my grammar, English isn't my native language

[genexis_x]

3 minutes ago, Folktale said:

I have that. I was just asking for some BIOS settings that I see people make like changing something in HDD page of BIOS and all that

Set the USB as the first boot drive

[Damascus]

1 minute ago, Folktale said:

use UEFI? I didn't get it. Isn't the BIOS now called UEFI with mouse support and all that?

Very simple.  Go to the frequency setting, go to RAM profiles and turn on xmp profile 1.

[Folktale]

1 minute ago, Damascus said:

Not at all, I never partition my hdds

But why? Why I think it is a bad idea. I will be storing lots of data. Some important data I cannot afford to lose. And If I don't make a partition, then I will lose all the data if some virus or some other issues forces me to re-install windows.

[Folktale]

Just now, Damascus said:

Very simple.  Go to the frequency setting, go to RAM profiles and turn on xmp profile 1.

He already did that.

[Damascus]

if you feel it's absolutely necessary start with 120gb

[Folktale]

1 minute ago, ZM Fong said:

Set the USB as the first boot drive

yes. I will do that.

[Folktale]

Just now, Damascus said:

if you feel it's absolutely necessary start with 120gb

hmmm...Again that's a bad idea Reason: I have to install photoshop, blender, 1-2 games of 25-60GB and Windows 10 takes up 30GB of space

[DocSwag]

9 minutes ago, Folktale said:

use UEFI? I didn't get it. Isn't the BIOS now called UEFI with mouse support and all that?

When you boot it can boot the os in uefi or legacy, but win10 only supports uefi. It's a setting in the bios that was the cause for 5 hrs of my troubles. When set in legacy/uefi the windows installation would just load and load endlessly. Switched to uefi only and boom, it worked.

[Folktale]

2 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

When you boot it can boot the os in uefi or legacy, but win10 only supports uefi. It's a setting in the bios that was the cause for 5 hrs of my troubles. When set in legacy/uefi the windows installation would just load and load endlessly. Switched to uefi only and boom, it worked.

Now I understand and remember one incident with same experience when I tried to install Win XP on a Win 7 machine.

[DocSwag]

1 minute ago, Folktale said:

Now I understand and remember one incident with same experience when I tried to install Win XP on a Win 7 machine.

Pretty sure win7 supports legacy and uefi, but not 100% sure on that  

[NinJake]

If your concern is saving important data. Get a dedicated C: SSD for windows. Get another SSD for other software/games, and a HDD for mass storage and either 1 more HDD for backups or an external drive for backups and do backups as often as permitted. Don't worry about partitioning, though...

[Folktale]

8 minutes ago, NinJake said:

If your concern is saving important data. Get a dedicated C: SSD for windows. Get another SSD for other software/games, and a HDD for mass storage and either 1 more HDD for backups or an external drive for backups and do backups as often as permitted. Don't worry about partitioning, though...

hah! If I had that kind of budget, I would have picked Titan X.