Replacing internal drive - advice needed

I use a desktop G5 with two internal (SATA) hard drives. The non-bootable second drive is full and I intend to replace it with a new SATA drive with more capacity.
The files on the drive that is full are also backed up on an external drive. I propose to copy the stuff from the external drive to the new larger internal drive. (Once removed, the old internal drive will be out of action until the day comes when I get a box to house external drives).
I'm reasonably confident about the hardware side of things, installing the new internal drive. However I'm concerned about OS X issues... For instance, can I give the new drive the same name as the one just removed? Will that confuse the OS? Will it wonder where all the files have gone? Later, when I copy all the missing files to the new drive will the system find them? And if in the future I use the old drive in a box can I rename that drive and still have the files it hold recognised by the system?
Given what I'm planning to do, what OS issues should I be aware of?
Thanks, iHope

BDAqua wrote:
Ideally, I'd clone the Old HDD to the New one, once installed....
Thanks for your comments. Since I can't clone the old HDD can I give the new drive the same name as the one just removed? And will it not wonder where all the files have gone?

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