Dualboot windows 8.1 with windows 7(recovery product disk)

Question

Hi,
I am currently running windows 8.1 with pre-installed windows 8.I want to dualboot windows 8.1(current windows system) with windows 7 home premium.I have made a hard drive partion and now i have "2" hard disks 500 gb both of "2".I have
a product recovery disk for the windows 7 home premium and i want to use it to do the dualboot with the windows 7.At the back of this disk it says that i must insert the disk to the pc,shut it down and when i open it again press f12 and then instructions will
appear.Unfortunatelly when i press f12 i see a message select which item to boot and has 2 options realtec driven ipvn4 and ipvn6.I selected the ipvn4 and nothing happened.So i want help on how to use it and make this dualboot come true.

Answer 1

You need to contact the manufacturer of your system.  Most Windows 8.1 system have protected boot mode and Windows 7 cannot be installed in the protected boot mode.  You will have to find out from the manufacturer's technical support
what UEFI/BIOS settings you need to dual boot with Windows 7.
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