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Try reposting this in the 'Q&A' forum. The 'Discussion' forum is for matters of general discussion, not specific problems in search of a solution. The 'Water Cooler' is for non-technical discussions. You can submit a question to 'Q&A' here:

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All that is required here s to shrink the HDD with some form of Partition Management Software and then with the Sony provided Recovery Disc install 7 to the unused space on the HDD. This will give you a Dual Boot Option when you first start the system and allow you to chose which OS you want to boot into.

or depending on what you want to do here you could run a Installation of 7 in Virtual Mode with either M$ Virtual Machine if your version of 7 supports Vitalization it needs to be Professional or better or you may be able to use VM Ware on the system.

You really need to tell us what you want to achieve here, exactly what you have and we can then suggest which is the better option.

Just repost with the added information as a Question and someone here will attempt to help you out.

Col