How to Dual boot Windows 7 on one machine pre-installed Windows 8

Hi, my laptop came with pre-installed Windows 8, now I would also like to install Windows 7 Ultimate(Dual Boot) on the same machine, I have the DVD and the product key for windows 7. I made a partition (NTFS) on the hard drive to install windows 7, please help me in installing windows 7 and also to get an option to select the operating system to start.

When the dual-boot, it is recommended that you install the oldest, all operating system first, in this case, Windows 7. Because of the risk of destroying your installation of Windows 8 and making it no longer starts, I suggest first, back up your installation of Windows 8 and also create a system repair disc.

The best recommendation would be to install Windows 7 on a virtual machine:

How to install Windows 7 Ultimate in Oracle VM Virtualbox 3.2.8...

https://www.VirtualBox.org/wiki/downloads

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