Boot Camp Killed My Mini (or was it my own stupidity?)

After not reading the fine print and trying to install Windows Media Center through Boot Camp onto my Mac Mini, I had errors and it crashed out (as noted by other posters here).
After unsuccesfully trying to recover, and as I'd just recently done a clean install, I thought the easiest thing to do would be to reformat the drive and start fresh. However after I reinstalled the clean drive I get an error message saying "No Bootable Device - Insert boot disk and press any key". This happens even with the Leopard install disk in the drive.
A couple of days ago, I put an empty drive into my mini and it started up fine with the Leopard install disk in, so something must have changed my system settings (BIOS, or whatever Mac has) which is stopping this from working. Does anyone know what I need to do?
Desperately seeking answers...

Welcome to Apple Discussions.
Restart the Mac (by turning the power off and then back on). Make sure the Leopard DVD is in the drive and hold down the C key. The Mac should then boot from the Leopard DVD and you should be able to use Disk Utility to create a new Mac partition and reinstall Leopard.

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5639
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Early 2011 MBPro/ 7500rpm HItachi dry/ OS 10.8.3 / no updates in queue....recent clean install of OS at Apple store ~2 mo. ago (due to battery issue).
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@Christopher Murphy:
Okay, you seem confident. Let's give this a shot. I use the command-line myself for the odd thing, so I'll try not to bail.
Results of the "sudo gpt -r -vv show disk0" command:
gpt show: disk0: mediasize=500107862016; sectorsize=512; blocks=976773168
gpt show: disk0: PMBR at sector 0
gpt show: disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: disk0: Sec GPT at sector 976773167
      start       size index contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
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         40     409600      1 GPT part - REDACTED UUID
     409640 156303528      2 GPT part - REDACTED UUID
156713168    1269536      3 GPT part - REDACTED UUID
157982704 659841040      4 GPT part - REDACTED UUID
817823744     262144
818085888 158687232      5 GPT part - REDACTED UUID
976773120         15
976773135         32         Sec GPT table
976773167          1         Sec GPT header
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Disk: /dev/disk0          geometry: 60801/255/63 [976773168 sectors]
         Starting       EndingSignature: 0xAA55
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [         1 - 976773167] <Unknown ID>
2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused
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2. Install FAT32 Windows XP SP2 on the new 30 gig partition.
3. Insert MacOSX disk that came with my brand new Mac Mini as to install Boot Camp and drivers.
4. Installation begins but soon fails. The error message reads "Installation encountered an error" and goes on to state there may be a "problem with the package"
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Hi and welcome to Discussions,
first of to clear up the confusion.
Apples BootCamp consists of two part: an OSX part which is the BootCamp Assistant and a Windows part which are the Drivers.
These two parts can have different version numbers.
The latest version of the BootCamp Assistant is indeed 3.0.2 and the lastest version of the Driver package is 3.1 (or later with the Mid 2010 released Macs).
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If you have access to a WIndows PC you might wanna insert the OSX DVD there and copy the full content of it onto an USB-Memory-Stcik.
Back at your Mac insert that Stick while in Windows and copy the full content back onto your WIndows partition (C:) preferably into a new folder in the root directory (c:\Download for example).
Regards
Stefan

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I am the owner of MBP 2.4 - 8600m gt - 4gb I was using it for around one year with no problem but and from some time I have noticed a big drop of the performance...
On the boot camp I have COD4 which was running smoothly with 80-125fps but now it is barely 30fps with the same configuration... same story with games like TF2 and L4D..
What I have tried after this drop:
* format C: and getting fresh system
* different graphic drivers
* playing with directx settings
* checking the power management
* reset PRAM, SMC
* Apple Hardware Test
* playing without battery
* tuning fun speed
nothing helped...!
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( * Distorted or scrambled video on the computer screen
* No video on the computer screen (or external display) even though the computer is on) but mine MBP is not having any of those...
I was also looking online for similar problems and I have found those topic touching same issue with the same model of MBP...:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1583573&tstart=75
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1792525
some other topics as well but I cannot find them right now.. the problem is that nobody knows why this strange thing occurs...
Please help me?

For starters, using a different graphics driver and playing with DirectX settings may make things worse. In general... for any notebook, you should be using the driver from the manufacturer. Unlike desktop graphics cards, notebook GPUs are generally configured specifically for the machine they are used in.
Playing without the battery will result in SIGNIFICANTLY poorer performance. The system will drop your CPU speed nearly in half when running without the battery. This is by design.
Doing a clean install is the one thing that you did that I would think would resolve the problem if it were related to Windows. After you did the clean install, did you just use the Apple provided drivers?
As you mentioned, the problems with some of the nVidia GPUs have generally not resulted in performance issues... but rather stability issues which you do not seem to be having.
Do you have antivirus software installed? I'm not suggesting a virus, but rather many antivirus programs are set to perform scans automatically in the background which can have a significant impact on performance while the scan is running. Other things such as defragging, etc. can cause performance hits.
You can launch the Task Manager... click on the "Processes" tab... then click on the "CPU" heading. This will sort your active processes with the highest on top. If you click on the CPU heading and the first few are "0"... click on the heading again (it is probably showing in ascending order instead of descending order). What are the first few items taking up the greatest percentage of your CPU? They may fluctuate a little... but the biggest culprits should stay among the top few.

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