Need HDD help, Cloned my my Hdd to another Hdd now do I format the old one?

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I am just a little worried because yea I have cloned my drive but if I format the old drive so I can just throw my movies in there will there be any issues with programs or they'll be ok because they have new folders etc?

Just be a massive headache if i did this and it's the wrong way to do things ha

The drive i cloned and the drive i cloned to are not my bootable windows drive so keep that in mind, I just dont want to lose all my programs if i format my old drive
 
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So you just went from a secondary drive to a new secondary drive?
Did you change the drive letters around so the new one is the same drive letter as the old one?

For a test, simply disconnect SATA cables from the old drive. Does everything still work OK?
If so, wipe...
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So you just went from a secondary drive to a new secondary drive?
Did you change the drive letters around so the new one is the same drive letter as the old one?

For a test, simply disconnect SATA cables from the old drive. Does everything still work OK?
If so, wipe that drive as needed.
 
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It wont let me change the current drive letter to something else so that I can change the new drive letter to the old one.... and yea basically wanted my os on the SSD but it's pretty small and I have most of my programs on a laptop HDD and now I just bought a actual HDD from Seagate.

So YEa I tried changing the drive letter and path to something like anything else, says some programs rely on this drive letter and then error message saying parameters are incorrect....

If I can't change this drive letter then I can't assign it to the new drive
 
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Pefrect thank you USAFret, I went ahead and disconnected the drive then I was able to assign the drive letter to the correct letter and everything for the moment seems perfect, I plugged in the other drive again and once it was up and running I formatted the thing so everything is good to go. Thank you again for the help
 
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