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disk issue moving drive from XP to 7
I have a Western Digital 300GB SATA drive, formatted FAT32 under XP. This is NOT a boot disk. While it was in the XP box it was configured as a basic disc, single partition, no unallotted space. I put about 250GB of data onto it, then I took it out of the XP box and put into a Windows 7 box. System BIOS sees the drive no problem. However disk manager under 7 shows the disk as dynamic, invalid. It won't let me reactivate the disk ("The operation is not allowed on the invalid disk pack."). This drive has NEVER been configured dynamic. But it's never been in a 7 box till now either.
What's the deal? There must be something I'm not getting, some configuration that I need to do for this to work. All I want is for 7 to see the drive for what it is, a basic disk.
thanks
RACER