Dynamic vs. Basic Disk

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Kayda

Hi:

I recently took an old Maxtor 80GB drive and put it in a USB drive
case, and hooked it up to a new computer. When I reboot, the computer
doesn't recognize it until I go to Disk Management and right click on
it and choose "reactivate disk". Then I can explore the disk.

If I choose "Convert to Basic Disk", will it recognize the disk on
bootup? What are the implications of doing this? (obviously I will need
to back up my files first).

Thanks,
Kayda
 
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