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The mini is not on apples support list for 64 bit os's, be it vista or 7. That is what I am wondering............

The CPU is 64 bit.
 
There are plenty of reports of people installing it with bootcamp would choosing the ems support option change anything?
 
I really don't know. FWIW, I used the bootcamp utility, made the partition, then insearted the disc and allowed it to restart into the installer. Worked like a champ.

Keep trying, I don;t have a copy of 7 yet, and I won't if this mini is not compatible, as I don't own a machine capable yet.
 
Maybe I should do that. I did a clean install again and it gave me an error. The first time I had messed it up myself because I did not know that it would automatically boot from cd when there was no OS present so I held down "C" and it messed it up.
 
Recover hard drive with OSX 10.6 disc. Then run update. Use bootcamp to split the HD how you want it. It will prompt you to install the windows disc, and restart. Use a USB keyboard + ms, not a bluetooth. It should boot to the windown disc and work. Hopefully......
 
Well when I do the initial disk partition for OS X how much is enough to allow breathing room?

Would you know off hand what would be different if windows 7 installed through bootcamp or just as a clean disk?
 
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hennessy1 said:
Well when I do the initial disk partition for OS X how much is enough to allow breathing room?

Would you know off hand what would be different if windows 7 installed through bootcamp or just as a clean disk?
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Ideally you want the entire hard drive to be partitioned to OS X just like it was when it shipped from the factory. Install the recovery disc so it is like you got it out of the box. Then run the apple updates. Then use the bootcamp utility to partition and setup win 7. This is how I did mine for vista and it worked flawlessly. I do not beleive you can make an apple boot from a windows platform without the bootcamp utility. I could be wrong but it would not make sense for apple to make a computer, and you slap a blank hard drive in it, and make it a windows pc.

I was hoping other more apple savy folks would chime in. I would leave 40GB to OS X so at least it is usable and software can be installed on it.

And BTW, you have all the disc's that shipped with the apple. Play around a bit, so what if you have to reformat and reinstall many times to get it right. Just do not activate windows until you have it the way you want it.
 
I have W7 64bit installed on my revA Macbook Air as the only OS. It only has a 64gig SSD, so I didn't want to waste any space for OSX. I do keep a SL install on a small usb hdd so I can boot to it if I ever find a need.

You have to have the BC 3.0 drivers installed before you can install the newest ones, if you don't want to purchase SL, find a friend with the disk and just extract the Bootcamp stuff from it.
 
Ok so even though I tested the new hdd I installed I guess that was the problem. I replaced that and windows 7 x64 installed just fine. It is the only OS on there as I don't plan on having OS X on there and when I need firmware updates I can do a clean image install.
 
So to confirm, you do have win 7 x64 on there now? This is GREAT news!!!!!

Apple say it will not support x64 bit windows vista or 7, I guess you proved them wrong. Can you post a screenshot of the proprties page showing the windows experiance rating, and the 64 bit?

Also I would like to know why you chose not to use OS X at all? It is a nice safe OS for internet and other things. I know nothing about it, except I am starting to like it.
 
Yes I do have windows 7 x64 running on my mini. I will post screen shots sometime mid next week. I have to replace a stick of ram was coming up with errors. I will also post a screen shot of it being the only OS on the mac mini as well. The ram probably added to the difficulty of installing it as well.
 
There is a guy here having difficulty getting just windows to run on his, maybe you could shed some ideas as to why he is having difficulty.

I know I want 2 OS's on mine so I will be keeping OSX and Win7 x64 on mine.
 
Thank you. In response to your other thread. I did have trouble using my wireless keyboard to choose to start from cd but during the windows install it worked fine. I never have used a bluetooth keyboard for an install as they usually don't work in most cases. I can test out the bluetooth for you to see if I can get it to work as well in x64 environment.
 
Finally up and running perfectly.

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Yeah I had trouble getting my bluetooth KB/MS to work correctly in windows 7. I gave up and just use a usb keyboard for everything. I hate the small apple keyboard anyways....

You have 8GB ram, and must have on hell of a 7200RPM hard drive in there to get a 5.9 score. Was the 8GB ram expensive?
 
hennesy1,

Could you post shot of HDTach on your hard drive. Or just type the burst speed, avg read, and describe the graph. I am curious to see how the 7200RPM model compares to the factory supplied HD.
 
Sorry for the late response. I did run the HDTach about a week ago and came up with these numbers. 70MB/s read and 235MB/s burst. The graph I can not remember off hand and can't find the screen shot of it. But I have nothing bad to say for its performance.
 
Thats good because the factory 5400RPM is kinda lack luster. 7200RPM mobile drives still arn;t up to snuff to dekstop drives but good enough.
 
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