Experimental - Install Windows 7 from command prompt (Shift+F10)

[Joe7]

I'm trying to install Windows 7 Pro in a partition of a multi boot disk.
My goal is to avoid overwriting my Grub bootloader. I'm on an old BIOS machine and storage disk has a GPT partition table.

I thought to just apply install.wim image, something like this:

dism /apply-image /imagefile:e:\sources\install.wim /index:1 /applydir:c:\

Unfortunately the above dism command seems a bit smarter than the version included in my win7 install ISO.
I tried but there isn't any recognized "/apply-image" option...

Questions:

1. how to install windows 7 using ISO image and its command prompt (shift+f10)

2. how to prevent windows install procedure to put its bootloader at the beginning of my disk and overwrite actual Grub loader for other linux system.

Thanks in advance!

 

[SIW2]

In win7 the commands are not the same as win10/11

how to prevent windows install procedure to put its bootloader at the beginning of my disk

use the apply method instead of setup.exe

 

[Joe7]

What is "apply method"?

 

[Joe7]

I found an alternative way to "apply" x:\sources\install.wim to target NTFS partition prepared for win7.
I used "wimapply" command from linux, part of "wimlib" package.
To find the "index" of windows channel version ("professional" for instance):

wiminfo /mnt/cdrom/install.wim

In my case windows 7 Professional has Index number "3".
To apply the wim image of Win 7 Professional to target partition, let's say "/dev/sda5":

wimapply /mnt/cdrom/sources/install.wim 3 /dev/sda5

It will install/extract windows 7 pro on /dev/sda5 partition.

Anyway one step is missing, the bootloader configuration and install.
And it is what I want, to prevent overwriting Grub bootloader installed in first sectors of disk.
I tried some suggests found to install and fix windows bootloader but without "fixmbr", still to prevent Grub overwriting.

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But now I'm stuck with an error when I choose win7 added in grub bootloader menu:

File: \BootBCD
Status: 0xc000000e
Info: An error occurred while attempting to read the boot configuration data.

I suspect the matter is related to hybrid configuration:

- Old Bios machine
- GPT format partition table

I read windows 7, also 64 bit, want a pure MBR configuration with "msdos" format partition table, on old BIOS machines.
On the other hand it can be installed on a disk with GPT partition table, but on a UEFI system only.

I don't know what exactly is related that limitation, may be to just some step of installation, otherwise I wondering if it is a goo idea to configure something like clover or similar ways to "emulate" UEFI system at boot. But I don't know if it will be enough for windows requirements.

Any hints?