Dual boot ESXi 5 and Windows 7 ??

Hi,

Have a laptop that I would like to use as a lab for ESXi. I've installed ESXi on it and it worked fine, vsphere connected fine from another pc and seems to work properly.

The laptop has a 1TB hard drive, laptop is a standard one that only has one physical hard drive.

What I would like to know is, can I dual boot Windows 7 and ESXi? If I split the hard drive in 2, so roughly 500GB each partition, can I use one for Windows 7 and one for ESXi (with datastore and space for VMs)?

If so, can someone please advise on how I do that or point me in the right direction.

Thanks.