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When Win 7 reports error with the drive, follow instructions on screen to go along with "System Recovery" > "Startup Repair" using the Win 7 DVD - the problems will be fixed automatically by Win 7.Disconnect the old 2T drive (optional: to avoid drive letter confusions), set the BIOS option to boot the new 3T drive in UEFI mode.Using Clonezilla, clone the old MBR Win 7 boot partition into the new GPT Win 7 boot partition.Using Partition Editor, reduce the Win 7 partition to the size needed and create a new data partition with the vacated space. Restart and set the BIOS option to boot the USB drive into Parted Magic (use x386_64 platform).Do a clean installation of Win 7 on to the new 3T disk (no need to worry about the settings as they'll be overwritten later) - Win 7 will create 3 partitions automatically under GPT.Take the Win 7 64-bit setup DVD (or burn one from iso image available on the net), set the PC's BIOS option (in my case, press F12 at start up) to boot the Win 7 setup DVD in UEFI mode.Make the USB thumb drive bootable with Parted Magic.I had both drives connected throughout, plus a USB thumb drive and a DVD drive Just to share here what I did so that it would take less time for others with the same need: The comments here gave me really great help in transferring the old Win 7 MBR partitions to the new GPT ones, especially the boot partition. I upgraded from a 2T MBR drive to a 3T GPT one (each with a Win 7 OS partition & a data partition). I switched it back to AHCI after putting my old install onto the GPT drive and all was well) (Other notes: on my Intel DP43TF I had to update the BIOS and set the BIOS to IDE instead of AHCI for the Windows setup. It has taken me literally days of fiddling to figure this all out and now hopefully others wont have to. As we overwrite one that was set up correctly, it starts our old one up instead.
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