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With Windows still intact on my old HDD that's still connected to my PC, I installed Windows again on my new SSD. After reinstalling Sabnzb and Sickbeard, I found the exact configs have been carried over without me having to do anything. What's going on?

Depends a bit on where you told SABnzbd where your data is.
By default settings reside in the user profile, so unless Windows somehow took over
existing profile data, you should have a clean slate.
However, if you are using the -f option to set an explicit path and that location is preserved, what you describe will happen.

How can Windows take it over when I performed a clean install on the new drive? Maybe it can detect another version of the OS on a secondary drive and automatically carried over the user settings?

What's an -f option?

-f, see Wiki: http://wiki.sabnzbd.org/command-line-parameters
Default locations: http://wiki.sabnzbd.org/configure-0-7
Somehow Windows took over something from the previous installation.
I don't know, I'm not a Windows wizard.
SABnzbd doesn't look any further than the default location or the "-f" location.