What I would do is to buy a copy of VMWare or its equivalent, and an external USB 2.0 or Firewire hard-disk drive. Set up a virtual machine that is hosted entirely on that external drive (or a partition thereof), leaving the Windows host entirely alone. Run a Linux distro of your choice there.
Remember, all Intel/AMD chips of recent vintage have hardware support for virtualization, so it is extremely efficient. Most hosts on the Internet are, in fact, virtual machines. Operating systems also generally know when they are running in a virtual machine, and behave in a way that is favorable to that environment.
Last edited by sundialsvcs; 10-25-2013 at 09:13 AM.
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