I want to reinstall my mac mini.

How?

Re-install from scratch with Mountain Lion?
If you already have Lion or Mountain Lion on it you can press "Option-R" during boot to reach the boot menu (you need USB connected keyboard). You can then erase the Mac partition with Disk Utilities from that menu and then choose install. You need backup and an Apple ID that links to your Lion/Mountain Lion purchase and it needs to be connected to the Internet.

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