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Hi there
Not quite true - but almost.
The only time you can avoid creating this partition is if you allocate the WHOLE HDD / SSD to "C" before installing Windows -- if you have any other partitions then Windows will always create the 100 MB partition.
After you've created your Windows system you can then use something like Partition Wizard (Free) to re-size the "C" partition if you've installed on to a large HDD.
It's not necessary to avoid creating the windows system partition - but I can understand why some people might want to do it -- then they just have to backup the "C" image instead of the system partition too.
On restore also when you restore the system Partition it must be the ACTIVE partition or your system won't boot. Set the "C" partition to PRIMARY.
I can see people just preferring to have a single partition so they don't have to worry about any of this on backup / restore of their images.
Remember also with things like GPT disks etc other considerations will apply in future.
Cheers
jimbo