I can read and write to the afflicted drive it just wont boot from it.
No need to get other operating systems but thanks.
Had to tear the office apart to find the disk for the mobo to get the NIC adaptor to work before I could do anything. ASUS does not list seperate drivers for their MOBO's just some applet that calls the web. Guess what you cant all the web without the drivers
Not sure what you do if you lose that disk.
The new TB drive finally formatted, got winders installed, several hours worth of updates and then some more updates
All told probably about 8 hours into it. Fortunatly most of it was 'un attended'.