Will my HDD remain OFFLINE when seen by LINUX or WinPE or Win XP ?

alan10

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My Secondary HDD is 600 GB HDD by WDC and was GPT.
DiskPart now sees this as MBR and is unable to revert.

I had used Windows Disk Management and changed its status from Online to Offline to write protect the 500 GB of data for future recovery.
Has this set the internal controller within the HDD to protect from writing by any other operating system until a manual change of status from Offline back to Online ?
Or is this state only a registry setting within this installation of Windows 7 ?

Do I need to disconnect identify and disconnect the relevant SATA and power cables ?

Regards
Alan
 

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My Computer My Computer

At a glance

Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit SP1 x64AMD Phenom X4 95008 GBATI Radeon HD 4600 Series
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
ASUSTeK Computer INC. M3A32-MVP DELUXE (CPU 1)
OS
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit SP1 x64
CPU
AMD Phenom X4 9500
Motherboard
ASUSTeK M3A32-MVP Deluxe (CPU 1)
Memory
8 GB
Graphics Card(s)
ATI Radeon HD 4600 Series
Sound Card
AMD High Definition Audio Device
Monitor(s) Displays
SyncMaster (1680x1050@60Hz)
Hard Drives
59GB OCZ-VERTEX2 ATA Device
+
977GB SAMSUNG HD103SJ ATA Device
+
625GB WDC WD6401AALS-00L3B2 ATA Device
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