Hello, I have the new 2012 Mac Mini (model Macmini6,2). I'm having difficulties installing Windows 7 with Bootcamp. I run the Bootcamp Assistant which successfully creates a Windows 7 install disk (on a USB drive).

It also successfully downloads the latest windows support software and puts it on a different USB drive. The hardrive partition options come up and after selecting the desired partion layout the system reboots and starts booting the Windows installer. This is where things go wrong. The Windows installer is unable to recognize my installed hard drive. It asks for additional drivers and regardless of what drivers I select from the Windows support files it never is able to see the hard drive, and therefore can't continue with the installation. Has anyone else had this problem?

Thanks, Bill. I believe I am experiencing something similar.

Windows Server 2012 on Mac mini (self.sysadmin). A Mac Mini is going to run out of CPU, Memory, and Disk I/O in a hurry if you are running virtual servers. Dec 5, 2017 - Check out two main ways of installing Windows on Mac: Boot Camp. Air (2012 and later); iMac (2012 and later); Mac Mini (2012 and later).

I have the 2012 Mini with the Fusion Drive and 10.8.2, and am trying to install Windows 7. In the initial Windows installation steps, I can see the BOOTCAMP partition, but when I try and install Windows on it, Windows says something like it can't find a system partition.

Since it can see the partition, it doesn't seem like a storage driver issue, but I'm wondering whether there is something about the Fusion drive that is preventing Windows 7 from installing. I was able to install Windows 8 on this Mini previously, so it seems that Windows 7 is missing something that is required to install on the Fusion Drive. Here's what I did and it worked. Best internet browser for mac sierra vista. When the Win installer comes to the panel with all the drive partitions and when you click on the BootCamp partition and it does nothing, look to the lower right and there should be a selection there that says 'more' or 'other' or something like that.

Click on that and there will appear more selections to chose from. One says 'Format' go ahead and format your BootCamp partition then all of a sudden the installer will take off and follow through with the installation and six hours later from the time your began your Windows mission, you can be right here posting while in Win7.

Just like me. Well, the first time I did format the BootCamp partition with Win 7, just like I did for the Win 8 install previously, and I still got the error. But I just tried again after a reboot, and the Win 7 install worked this time. But the partitions listed were different this time. Previously Windows displayed partitions on 2 disks (disk 1 and disk 2), but this time it only displayed one disk. So something changed between the first time I tried it and this second time.