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Done it:

Even with legacy-BIOS on MBR HDD.
Installed with UEFI and registry-patch (2 lines to deactivate TPM-2.0 and Secure-Boot checks).
Convert HDD from GPT to MBR wit Minitool PartitionWizard, create 100MB System-reserved partition for booting, set drive letter C: and activate partition.
Boot with Win10-stick to repair boot record and enter in command line:
bcdboot D:\Windows /l en-us /s C:
bootsect /nt60 C: /mbr /force
Works perfectly on first attempt.
Now I have Win11 on my old PC beside other OSes on an MBR-HDD or SSD and can boot directly without additional HDD or any changes in BIOS/UEFI.
You can move Win11 partition with minitool to any other disk even logical partitions and include it with easyBCD to your boot selection (faster in legacy Win7 style).

 

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