Converting MBR to GPT without data loss on a non-system disk

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HiI have an MBR system/OS disk running Windows Server 2016 (Data Centre edition). I have a secondary, 2TB data disc. I'd like to expand capacity on the secondary disc to 3TB, preferably without data loss. After spending much time on Google, I'm still confused as to whether it's possible to convert the secondary disc from MBR to GPT without data loss, and without changing the primary system/OS disc from MBR.I've had a look at the MBR2GPT utility, but it tries to identify an OS partition, which of course is not on the disc I'm trying to convert. Validation on the secondary disk fails for MBR2GPT

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