Quote Originally Posted by Kodiak View Post
The drive was in some sort of protected mode, darned if I can remember now what it was, and it wouldn't let me access it by attaching it to another pc. I have seen this twice now with win 8 machines. Not sure what crashed it but it would only show a white screen. Hardware tested fine.

Ahh found it (gpt protected)


IC my shop machines are all xp so it appears that I may need to upgrade to win7 on at least one of them.

GPT works in windows as long as you have a UEFI bios.