yep partitions are there - is your other machine W10?

none of mine are.

That's an interesting link ;)

Thanks.

...ad .. nope - I guess 10 has encryption keys somewhere I have no access to :(

Hi dalchina thanks for the answer - I guess I wasn't clear. The drive is fine. SMART checks out totally. The drive is not the problem - I am guessing some encryption from MS is locking me/anyone out....

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