This option is "off topic" and it would be better to ask at the site Ask Different. This would require installing a free copy of VirtualBox on OS X. Without a working optical drive, you could still install Windows. Making a USB bootable recover disk assistant will allow you to reload OS X Lion from Apple's web site. If you do, try to see if you can boot to it. If you have Lion installed, did you make a bootable USB flash drive using the OS X Recovery Disk Assistant v1.0? If not, then does your mac still have its hidden recovery system partition? You can determine this by holding down the option key at startup. I did successfully install Ubuntu to an external disk using the DVD. The DVD verified OK, but the flash drive listed an error in 1 file. I used instructions posted here to create the flash drive. I was able to boot ubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso from a DVD and USB flash drive.
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