How to dual boot my Win 7 with win 10

Hi, I am leery about installing Win 10 without some way to get my pc in a workable state in case the Win 10 install fails. So I thought I would try to set up my laptop to have a dual boot of my existing Win 7 machine with the new Win 10 install. Does anyone know if this can be done and still get the free Win 10 OS? Can someone direct me to any documentation that can provide instructions on how to go about performing this endeavor? Something that is fairly explicit - I've never done this kind of thing before. Thanks,Mitch 

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