Windows installation without a restricted / reserved partition

Hello. I really hate when Windows "smashes" a million partitions into my partition while partitioning with a utility built into the installer. The more so because I do not use system restore points, system repair, etc. because I use other solutions (Deep Freeze / Reboot Restore RX in conjunction with Clonezilla / Ghost backup) and I do not need complicated MS tools. From the point of view of backups with Ghost / Clonezilla, the easiest way to "pile" is when you have two partitions on the disk, one for the system, the other for data (no hidden recovery partitions, recovery points and other proprietary goodies). If necessary, I will explain why (but I assume it will be clear).

It used to be possible to outsmart the installer:


Yesterday I tried to do this using the latest Windows 7 Home Premium image. And none of that. Apparently, MS was out of his mind and blocked this possibility of circumventing the "correct installation" (only right) policy. What's more - even if you prepare two NTFS partitions 60 GB each (e.g. gparted from Ubuntu Live), the installer will not allow you to install the system on any of them.

Strange because that's what I've done a lot in the past. Or maybe the difference comes from the fact that I used to do it on magnetic HDDs and SSDs are treated differently by the installer, and SSDs no longer allow what they allowed in HDD?

Generally, it is bothersome and irritating for me.
Is anyone able to clarify the topic a bit / or reveal your own ways to force the installer (Win7 / Win10) to install on a single partition without creating a million small dirty and unnecessary partitions?

MES Mariusz wrote:

Is anyone able to clarify the topic a bit / or reveal your own ways to force the installer (Win7 / Win10) to install on a single partition without creating a million small dirty and unnecessary partitions?

I install most often, directly from the HDD and I have no problems mentioned above.
https://www.elektroda.pl/rtvforum/topic2216202.html#11693516

There is one more method of unusual installation directly on the target partition, but it also requires connecting the disk intended for the system to the computer running the system. The principle is the same as in the case of creating portable systems on a flash drive using the DISm.EXE tool. Minimalistically enough, the Gimagex.exe tool (an overlay for a component of the DISM / Windows AIK set). If you are interested, and you will not find the appropriate guides on the web, I will try to write something, suggest something
In the case of gimagex.exe (found on the network), under the Apply tab, select the Install.wim file on the Windows disc or DVD image, select the extraction location, select the system version and Apply. Then use EasyBCD to prepare for independent start-up. Of course, the disk with the partition for the system must be properly prepared, i.e. the activated primary partition. That's it in a nutshell, because the manual method with DISM.Exe is comfortable, though not too much, but more reliable.

MES Mariusz wrote:

Yesterday I tried to do this using the latest Windows 7 Home Premium image. And none of that. Apparently, MS was out of his mind and blocked this possibility of circumventing the "correct installation" (only right) policy.

First I hear that Win7 cannot be installed on one partition in MBR mode?
At the installation stage, when the language, time and keyboard settings window appears, press Shift + F10 to enter CMD. Then run diskpart, check what hard disks we have, select our disk, clean the entire disk, create one active primary partition of min. 20GB (in 20480 megabytes), exit the program, close the CMD window and continue the installation by clicking the Next and Install now button:


As can be seen from the comments under the movie, the same can be done in Win8 or 10 in legacy MBR mode, of course.