Exchanging hard drives

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Just Installed new 80 gig WD hard drive as C and D.
Win XP home is on C.
Have a second HD, a 10 gig HD labeled F and G.

I want to remove the 10 gig F&G hard drive, and put in place the OLD WD 40 gig C&D drive, which has windows XP home and lots of program & data folders.

1.  Will the drives show up as F&G, same as one replaced?

2. Will there be any problems doing this... will windows somehow try to access the old copy of XP on the other drive? "I will insure jumper in correct position". Do not want dual boot.

3. I plan to copy all wanted files from the "old" C drive to the new D drive, than REFORMAT the old C drive, removing WIN XP from second drive. ANY PROBLEMS DOING THAT?


3.  Is there anything I should look out for?

Thanks

bently
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