W540 - Lacie Thunderbolt Hard Drive

I have recently purchased a Lenovo W540 which has a thunderbolt port and operating Windows 8.1 Pro. I have plugged in my Lacie – Little Big Disk which I previously purchased and used with my Mac Book Pro with no issue but upon connection I'm getting a "certified error". I am hoping if you can confirm if I can overcome this issue so I can use my thunderbolt drive on my new laptop. I have already tried downloading the driver from the Lacie support website but no luck? Any help or confirmation would be appreciated.

hmm. perhaps the drive was designed to work only on MacOS machines? Seems stupid to limit that, but it doesn't seem like a Lenovo limitation.
Hmm. seems to be a windows/device/BIOS thing.
EDIT: seems that there should be a setting somewhere to change the Thunderbolt firmware permissivity
HP has this: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=se&lc=sv&dlc=sv&tmp_geoLoc=true&docname=c03725328
not sure about Lenovo.
W530(2436-CTO): i7-3720QM, nVidia Quadro K2000M,16GB RAM, 500 GB hard drive, 128GB mSATA SSD, Ubuntu 14.04 Gnome, Centrino Ultimate-N 6300.
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