Install new c drive question

1. If you were cloning (making a disk image and restoring it to the new drive) your new C: drive you could get away with leaving your samples as they are. But as you plan to reinstall everything on the new drive, the new installation will not know where to find the samples on the D: drive unless you specifically direct it there. How those links are managed is specific to each program. Sonar does it mostly using registry values, but you may have programs that use their own system. The no-brain method is to do a full installation of your OS followed by re-installing each program, and telling each program as you install it where you want the various pieces installed. Usually this option is under "advanced" somewhere during the installation process. If you tell the program to install to a directory that is already on your D: drive, it will overwrite the existing files. In most cases that is not a problem, unless you have modified or updated files in that directory with the same name. Then you will be replacing newer versions with older versions and losing the new versions.
 
2. You will not have everything from previous versions. I do not believe VVocal for example is in X3. Some of the missing stuff can be installed by doing a custom installation of X1 or X2 and choosing to install just those items.
 
 
3. Unless you want to spend more time figuring all that out than actually installing everything, you are probably better off just installing all your programs, then updating them all. Remember that many programs can get by with a very small part of their total code on the C: drive if you tell them to install everything possible to D: or elsewhere. Make sure you have all of the distribution media authorization codes, serial numbers or whatever for everything you want to install before you start.

Oh, and if you have programs that manage the number of re-installations you can do, you should uninstall your current version while connected to the internet before you try to reinstall. The uninstall routine on those programs communicates with their license server and cancels the current registration so it does not count against you.