I bought an SSD to replace the secondary HDD in my laptop. The HDD is the D: drive on the laptop, NOT the boot C: drive, which is an NVME m.2 and will be left as is. I bought a caddy to go with the SSD so I will be able to clone the D: onto it via USB with Macrium, then physically swap it with the HDD afterwards. My question is when I do the initial copy/clone with the hdd still in place, the SSD will be given whatever letter it gets when it is partitioned, say E:, will the drive letter of the SSD automatically change to D: when it it swapped in, so the laptop will be totally none the wiser, or will it stay as E: and risk breaking links/dependencies etc, meaning I will have to manually reassign to D: once in Windows, and hope nothing is buggered up in the meantime? This is not a complex task I know, just wanted to get an idea of what to expect once I boot with the new drive in place, if anyone happens to know.
Edit: Well blow me if there isn't a post directly below this one asking pretty much the same question. Seems to be that swapping the letters is not a big deal regardless. Reading that I suppose I could simply give the SSD letter D:, and the HDD E: while they are both in the machine, then it can't mess about spontaneously changing it letter from D: once the swap takes place.
Edit: Well blow me if there isn't a post directly below this one asking pretty much the same question. Seems to be that swapping the letters is not a big deal regardless. Reading that I suppose I could simply give the SSD letter D:, and the HDD E: while they are both in the machine, then it can't mess about spontaneously changing it letter from D: once the swap takes place.
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