Since it looks like this may not work, whats the best way to make it into a media centure? mac osx? windows 7? plex? whats best and good? It is enouth for the OS but it runs slowish on the mac mini (latest core 2 duo 2.4ghz model) The Idea was to have it backup my pc and laptop to a usb drive and act as a media centre pc (connected to av receaver and tv and on a gigabit network with a 2TB nas) I have both a ISO and Burned it to a dvd useing windows 7 built in ISO burning software, Its a 64 bit copy (got from microsoft download website from my dads microsoft account). Newegg - HP StorageWorks X310 Windows Home Server Main idea is to have some network attached drives. In past, WHS supported TimeMachine, streaming video, supported iTunes (that was broken/disabled it seems by Apple with 10.0), as well as even SuperDuper backups. Seeing you have Windows 7, format the partition to NTFS 160GB you want and then exit and boot WHS installer. Disk Utility is known to be trouble, burning it on your Mac Mine but iwth Windows 7.? Most of the problems are with burning ISO, or the SuperDrive.

Genius are really not versed in Boot Camp or Windows, let alone anything not on the 'approved' list of Windows versions.