Can I connect a hard drive with the letter C to a PC that already has a drive with the letter C?

Question

Hard disks

I have an old hard drive that was marked with the letter C on the old PC, if I connect it to a new PC that already has a drive with the letter C, will it be displayed or will it need to change the letter or maybe it will not be marked with a letter at all? Sorry if this is a dumb question, I'm not good with computers

Answer 1

Can. Windows will reassign this drive to a new letter, choosing the first available one. You can also connect the drive not as a letter, but as a directory (right button on My Computer, management, disk management)
ps information about the drive letter is not stored on the drive itself (there is only an identifier) ​​but in the operating system, in the registry.
By the way, because of this, it will not be possible to simply copy os to the second disk D and then taking the first one out to boot from it, since the system will remember that this is disk D and connect it accordingly, and will not boot. You have to edit the registry after copying.