Mac mini 2010, can't install bootcamp drivers

My brother's computer (mid 2010 Macmini) has previously been partioned with a Windows 7 32 bit system. Under bootcamp 4 we could install Windows 7 32 bit system, plus drivers and it was used for playing games on Steam. The partition was removed so it could be increased and in the process updated the Apple side software to 10.8.5, which installed bootcamp 5.
Bootcamp 5 won't use our 32 bit install disk, so we went through the process of getting a 64 bit install disk and it installed without a problem. Now the drivers on the PC side as downloded by Bootcamp 5 won't work. I get the error message "Bootcamp x64 is unsupported on this computer model". So my next step was to download the bootcamp 4 drivers and they also do not work. I get the error message "this version of bootcamp is not intended for this computer model". I have had a look around and can't find anyone with the exact same issue.
Also the "troubleshoot capatability" fix doesn't work I have tried it. Can anyone help?

ezppl wrote:
Woops - now checked the 'Yes, my question has been answered'
Good news. Glad to be of help.
Cool - now to find out about sharing data across platforms.
Since Vista needs its system partition to be NTFS, you can read files from while in Mac OSX, but can't write to NTFS without additional help.
Either Paragons NTFS for Mac http://www.paragon-software.com/home/ntfs-mac/ or NTFS-3G http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ enable OSX to write to NTFS partitions.
The access your Mac OSX from Vista you can use MacDrive http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/
Or use an external harddisk with the FAT32 file system, since Mac OSX and Vista can read and write to/from FAT32.
But note that FAT32 has a built-in single-file size limitation of about 4GB.
Thanks again, Paul.
You're welcome anytime. Hope it it helps
Stefan

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