Replace my old drive from a new bigger drive for music

Plex Media Server
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I am going to add a new and bigger drive for all my music and I don’t want lose anything and do again the Super Sonic analize.
I know that I have to disable periodic and the automatic library scan and to have the same drive letter and same folder structure as the old one.

My question is:
It matter the name of the hard drive?
Right now the old hard drive with my music is name “DATA” and I am using the letter “D”
Can I name the new one “Plex Music” and I assign the letter “D”
Will I lose Super Sonic and any other analyzes if I change the name but assign the letter “D”?

Server Version#: Windows Version 1.41.1.9057
Player Version#: Plexamp iOS 4.11.2

Thanks for the help.

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Not on Windows.

That should not cause any trouble.
It is important that you disable Plex server during the transition.
Copy all content from your current D: drive to the new drive.
Do NOT change any folder and/or file names or try to rearrange the folder structure. Make a 1:1 copy.
Once the copy is done, remove the old D: drive (or give it a different drive letter). Then assign D: to the new drive.

That should be all. If you did everything correctly, Plex wouldn’t even notice that something has changed.

I recommend using the command line tool robocopy for the cloning process. It can be instructed to even preserve all the “changed at” time stamps on the files and folders.

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Ok, thanks OttoKerner.