How to downgrade this laptop from Windows 8 (plain) to Windows 7 Pro?

I bought a laptop that has plain old Windows 8 on it and I need to downgrade from Windows 7, because our database program does not work with Windows 8.  I contacted Dell and they said I should be able to install Windows 7 on this laptop.  I have a license for Windows 7 Pro.  I put Windows 7 Pro (64 bit) with SP 1 on a DVD.

First of all, it's weird, because I tried to back up (create a system image) of Windows 8 and has been unable to do.  I have an external hard drive with 222 GB free, and says saving it would be approximately 22 GB.  Always backup said that he was unable to create the image, because there was not enough room.  I finally gave up, because I really hate Win8 now, so I don't care if I have a backup.

Second, I put the DVD in the laptop and tried to start the installation.  He was not able to apply the updates to install, it failed with error code 0 x 0.  I gave up and just went forward in any case.  He gets up for where it restarts the laptop, and then I get a black screen that indicates a bad signature file.  Specifies the file is \$WINDOWS.~. BT\Windows\system32\winload. EFI.  It gives a code 0xc0000428 State and said that the "digital signature could not be verified."

I called the support for volume licensing Center, and he said that he did a search on the status code and found that someone said to use gpedit.msc to deactivate the digital signature verification.  But he did not know how to find in Windows 8.  Well, it turns out that this is the editor of group policy, which is not regular old Windows 8.  More that he couldn't help me without me.  But he said that I should be able to install Windows 7 on this laptop.

I just install Windows 7 Pro on this laptop.  How can I do that and substitute the verification of digital signature?

Go into the bios and see if there is an option for legacy startup or disable secure boot.

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