[Voltagex] was fed up with BSODs on his Windows machine due to a buggy PL2303 USB/serial device driver. The Linux PL2303 driver worked just fine, though. A weakling would simply reboot into Linux.
You can usually use raw device mapping to pass an entire disk to a VM, but I don't think you'll find a way to directly do so with a partition. Perhaps an iSCSI target in Windows would let you present ...
I'm going to start this post by saying something that a lot of people will find surprising. There are a lot of things that I like about UEFI firmware and the UEFI boot process. I think it is an ...