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Well, that might explain why the partitions in fdisk looked off when I plugged the Touch into my linux box. The (working) Touch was seen and the devices created but the Glo HD didn't even register a block device. I didn't spend much more time on it since I had never hooked up a kobo to linux previously and I had already read this thread so I went straight to the solution here.
FYI, what did notice was that prior to the device setup when windows wanted to format the device it would at least know the size and the format would complete. I was then able to copy firmware to the Glo HD and upgrade. I could perform wireless setup regardless of the firmware but as soon as the setup was complete Windows would want to format again but was unable to determine the drive's capacity so the format failed. Attempting to performed a wired setup with the desktop software appeared to briefly initiate but within a second or two lose connection and sit at the "please plug in your kobo to continue" screen.
After clearing the active/boot flag on partition 1 with MiniTool Partition Wizard in Windows I was able to run the wired setup with no issue - I don't even think I needed to reformat the device, just unplug and plug back in.
My Glo HD was not new in a sealed box and was not claimed to be refurbished but easily could have been.
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