I looked back at my OP and I described the drive/O/S in question. The other bootable drive wasn't/isn't the issue. The 2TB is a W7 Pro 'boot' drive, that is where the problem is, no doubt this BCD in ...

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I have a 2TB MBR drive w/ W7 in the 1st partition. Partitions 2 & 3 are used as separate storage. I want to xfer all of that to a 4TB GPT drive including resizing the 2nd & 3rd partitions. Most of ...