New Mac, Windows Partition Disappears

I just transferred all of my data from my Intel iMac to my new MacBook Pro by a firewire cable, and everything went off without a hitch except for one thing. I had a 30 GB Windows partition on my Mac, and when I click the alias for it now, it asks for an alias fix. Does anyone know the solution to this? Thanks!

Myself and many others have the same problem - check out this thread
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/436313

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Windows partition disappearing - twice

Is this a common problem?
I installed a Bootcamp partition and put Windows XP on it. No problem installing and using Windows for many months. Then one day, it just disappeared - the Windows disk no longer appeared on the desktop and the option to boot from it disappeared from the startup disk in settings. The hard disk space occupied by Windows still seemed to be there i.e. it wasn't available in Finder. So, I used Bootcamp assistant to delete the Windows partition and started again, re-installed Windows XP and thought I'd sorted it until today when I tried to restart the Mac in Windows but the Mac didn't like it for some reason and hung. A quick switch off/on and the Mac restarted in Mac OS and again the Windows partition disappeared although the space it occupied is still there.
Does this make sense?
Is there anything else I can do before I go through the whole Bootcamp/Installation process again?
Should I give up on Bootcamp and use Parallels instead?
Thanks for any help.

I went to boot into windows Xp last night, I use the option key, and it was missing too. Just my Mac HD showing up. Is it related to SL 10.6.6? Can't think of any other changes. Is there any way that my files have not been erased forever?

New Mac Mini - Dock Disappearing

I just got a new mac mini and I am using it as a media server. I am controlling through screen sharing and sometimes with air mouse. Other than that, nothing strange as far as applications running or downloaded.
Several times now, the dock has disappeared. I cannot click on the desktop or the Apple icon in the top left corner - but the application windows that are open continue to work - iTunes and Safari.
I have tried several combinations of disconnecting air mouse and screen sharing, but nothing seemed to effect what is wrong.
Any suggestions as to what is wrong?

I suspect the applications at hand could be crashing... It could be a RAM problem.
Slide your Leopard/Snow Leopard disc into the drive and hold D when booting to start the Apple Hardware Test.
Good luck!
~Yoma

Windows Partition disappeared

Okay, so here's what's going on, I installed windows 7 from my install disk. Something must have gone wrong somewhere because my partition was unable to detect any USB drives, and was unable to connect to any networks ( wireless, so no wifi). So there was no way to install any drivers manually. Because of this I decided it would be best to start over. I went into Boot camp, and I started uninstalling the partition. Part way through it stopped the process and told me that it was 'unable' to uninstall the partition. The moment I press the cancel button, my Windows partition becomes invisible. It is undetectable by any application ( Nor Boot camp or disk utility can detect it). I know it still exists though because every time I check my total disk space ( About this Mac> More Info> Storage) I see that my Apple partition contains 350 gigs of my total 1 tb of hard drive space. It is unable to detect where the other 650 gigs are stored though. I don't know what to do now. Should I wipe my drive, in which case how do I wipe the full drive instead of just my mac drive? I do have all of my mac files in a backup on a hard disk, however I want to be able to delete my hard drive data ( that is ANYTHING on my full tb of hd space) without deleting the Mac OSX 10 that came with the computer.
I'm using the new Mac Book Pro, 15", Retina with 2.6 GHz Quad core intel, 16 gigs of memory. It's the newest edition of Mac Book pro.
What do I do?

Well I've convinced myself that Leopard can happily mount NTFS volumes, so that means that we have to figure out why yours is not mounting.
A variant of nerowolfe's suggestion would be to use the chkdsk utility in Windows. Go to the command prompt (Start\All Programs\Accessories\Command Prompt).
Optional: type
chkdsk
This will take some time and will tell you if your Windows partition has errors, but it won't try to fix them. If it has errors, or if you skipped the first step, type
chkdsk /f
exit
and reboot. After the standard lengthy bootup, Windows will suddenly realize that it was supposed to check your disk and fix any errors. (Why it couldn't just do that to begin with, I have no idea.) This can take a while, even if it didn't in the command prompt. At one point, I was doing this and I thought my computer had frozen during stage 2, but I waited a little longer and it finally updated to 1% complete. Eventually it will finish and then reboot itself. Hopefully that will solve your problem.
Alternatively, if you are currently in Mac OS and are motivated, you could try some Terminal commands. For example,
diskutil info /dev/disk0s3
or even
sudo mkdir /Volumes/Untitled
sudo mount -r -t ntfs /dev/disk0s3 /Volumes/Untitled
If either fails, then the resulting error messages may prove useful. Also, if the latter fails, but does not seem to provide a useful error message, then perhaps
sudo mount -d -v -r -t ntfs /dev/disk0s3 /Volumes/Untitled
will provide some useful diagnostic messages.
I'm not sure why the sudo mkdir is needed, but unfortunately it is. It doesn't seem to do any harm.

Windows partition disappeared says locked

Hello everyone
I'm having an issue with my Mid-2012 Non-Retina MBP. I'd installed Win8 through Bootcamp on a 40GB partition and everything was fine until I hadn't used it for a couple of months and it no longer showed up in the boot options. I inserted my Win8 disc to attempt a repair the partition, and Windows 8 told me it was locked. It shows up in OSX disc utility and shows no error when I do a repair. Anyone have any leads on what might be going on?

sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0
Password:
gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=500107862016; sectorsize=512; blocks=976773168
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 976773167
      start       size index contents
          0          1         MBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640 896970936      2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
897380576    1269536      3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
898650112   78123008      4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
976773120         15
976773135         32         Sec GPT table
976773167          1         Sec GPT header
sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 60801/255/63 [976773168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [    409640 - 896970936] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 897380576 -    1269536] Darwin Boot
*4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 898650112 -   78123008] HPFS/QNX/AUX
sudo dd if=/dev/rdisk0s4 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C
00000000 eb 52 90 4e 54 46 53 20 20 20 20 00 02 08 00 00 |.R.NTFS    .....|
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 f8 00 00 3f 00 ff 00 00 50 90 35 |........?....P.5|
00000020 00 00 00 00 80 00 80 00 ff 0f a8 04 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000030 00 00 0c 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000040 f6 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 e0 2f d2 f0 34 d2 f0 80 |........./..4...|
00000050 00 00 00 00 fa 33 c0 8e d0 bc 00 7c fb 68 c0 07 |.....3.....|.h..|
00000060 1f 1e 68 66 00 cb 88 16 0e 00 66 81 3e 03 00 4e |..hf......f.>..N|
00000070 54 46 53 75 15 b4 41 bb aa 55 cd 13 72 0c 81 fb |TFSu..A..U..r...|
00000080 55 aa 75 06 f7 c1 01 00 75 03 e9 dd 00 1e 83 ec |U.u.....u.......|
00000090 18 68 1a 00 b4 48 8a 16 0e 00 8b f4 16 1f cd 13 |.h...H..........|
000000a0 9f 83 c4 18 9e 58 1f 72 e1 3b 06 0b 00 75 db a3 |.....X.r.;...u..|
000000b0 0f 00 c1 2e 0f 00 04 1e 5a 33 db b9 00 20 2b c8 |........Z3... +.|
000000c0 66 ff 06 11 00 03 16 0f 00 8e c2 ff 06 16 00 e8 |f...............|
000000d0 4b 00 2b c8 77 ef b8 00 bb cd 1a 66 23 c0 75 2d |K.+.w......f#.u-|
000000e0 66 81 fb 54 43 50 41 75 24 81 f9 02 01 72 1e 16 |f..TCPAu$....r..|
000000f0 68 07 bb 16 68 52 11 16 68 09 00 66 53 66 53 66 |h...hR..h..fSfSf|
00000100 55 16 16 16 68 b8 01 66 61 0e 07 cd 1a 33 c0 bf |U...h..fa....3..|
00000110 0a 13 b9 f6 0c fc f3 aa e9 fe 01 90 90 66 60 1e |.............f`.|
00000120 06 66 a1 11 00 66 03 06 1c 00 1e 66 68 00 00 00 |.f...f.....fh...|
00000130 00 66 50 06 53 68 01 00 68 10 00 b4 42 8a 16 0e |.fP.Sh..h...B...|
00000140 00 16 1f 8b f4 cd 13 66 59 5b 5a 66 59 66 59 1f |.......fY[ZfYfY.|
00000150 0f 82 16 00 66 ff 06 11 00 03 16 0f 00 8e c2 ff |....f...........|
00000160 0e 16 00 75 bc 07 1f 66 61 c3 a1 f6 01 e8 09 00 |...u...fa.......|
00000170 a1 fa 01 e8 03 00 f4 eb fd 8b f0 ac 3c 00 74 09 |............<.t.|
00000180 b4 0e bb 07 00 cd 10 eb f2 c3 0d 0a 41 20 64 69 |............A di|
00000190 73 6b 20 72 65 61 64 20 65 72 72 6f 72 20 6f 63 |sk read error oc|
000001a0 63 75 72 72 65 64 00 0d 0a 42 4f 4f 54 4d 47 52 |curred...BOOTMGR|
000001b0 20 69 73 20 63 6f 6d 70 72 65 73 73 65 64 00 0d | is compressed..|
000001c0 0a 50 72 65 73 73 20 43 74 72 6c 2b 41 6c 74 2b |.Press Ctrl+Alt+|
000001d0 44 65 6c 20 74 6f 20 72 65 73 74 61 72 74 0d 0a |Del to restart..|
000001e0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
000001f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 8a 01 a7 01 bf 01 00 00 55 aa |..............U.|
00000200

Will installing OS X Lion stuff up my windows partition?

Thinking of upgrading to lion but worried it could cause porblems with my windows partition.. Wondering if apple have fixed up these issues yet?

I Have a windows partition as well as a ubuntu partition. When I installed ubuntu, the same thing happened that a lot of people are describing. My windows partition disappeared, but my system files were still there. This was because once anything messes with the existing partitions, the built in boot manager no longer recognizes your partitions. I have a boot manager (rEFInd) that I installed that I use to recognize and boot all my partitions now. Now I want to update the OSX partition and it's giving me warnings that this will negate the bootcamp boot manager (which is why I have rEFInd in the first place), and I just want a way to bypass the warning

Moved my mac over to a new HD and my Windows Partition no longer boots.

Hello people smarter than me. I seek knowledge and skills I do not posses. I replaced my SSD with a bigger one going from 240gb to 960gb. The old one had two bootcamp OS partitions (Mac, Windows) and four partitions (EFI System Partition, Recovery HD make up the remaining two) I added a third (5th) partition that I labeled scratch (ExFat) that I intend to be a bulk storage for assets. Currently it will boot MacOS but not Windows 7.
My end goal is:
240gb [Bootable, Mac OS Extended (Journaled), MacOS X, MacLandia-new]
240gb [Bootable, NTFS, Windows 7, Winlandia-N]
480gb [ExFAT, Scratch]
Output from "sudo gpt -r -vv show disk0"
gpt show: disk0: mediasize=960197124096; sectorsize=512; blocks=1875385008
gpt show: disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
gpt show: disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1
gpt show: error: bogus map
gpt show: unable to open device 'disk0': No such file or directory
Output from "sudo fdisk /dev/disk0"
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 116737/255/63 [1875385008 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [    409640 - 487274680] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 487684320 -    1269536] Darwin Boot
4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 488953856 - 509388800] HPFS/QNX/AUX
Output from "gdisk"
Disk /dev/disk0: 1875385008 sectors, 894.3 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 151BF613-9829-4D05-87C8-1C064CF8AB85
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1875384974
Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries
Total free space is 342059669 sectors (163.1 GiB)
Number Start (sector)    End (sector) Size       Code Name
   1              40          409639   200.0 MiB   EF00 EFI System Partition
   2          409640       487684319   232.4 GiB   AF00 MacLandia-new
   3       487684320       488953855   619.9 MiB   AB00 Recovery HD
   4       488953856       635437055   69.8 GiB    0700 Winlandia-N
   5       977496064      1875384319   428.1 GiB   0700 scratch
Output from "diskutil list"
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *960.2 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Maclandia               249.5 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data Winders-New             75.0 GB    disk0s4
   5:       Microsoft Basic Data scratch                 459.7 GB   disk0s5
Output from "sudo dd if=/dev/disk0s3 count=1 2>/dev/null | hexdump -C"
00000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000200
Thank you for all your help.
-Harlune

Windows does not work from an external USB drive. It never has.

New Hard Drive, Mac partition cloned and boots fine, but I can't seem to get my BOOTCAMP (windows) partition to boot! Any ideas?

Hello all!
I got a new hard drive for my Mac Book Pro and an enclosure so I could clone the old partitions on to the new drive.
So I...
Put the new hard drive in the enclosure.
Booted up off an install disk and ran disk utility.
Copied the Mac and Bootcamp partitions over to the new drive that was connected VIA USB.
Turned off the computer, took the old hard drive out and put it in the enclosure.
Put the new hard drive in the Mac Book Pro.
Booted into Mac OSX with no problem.
When I rebooted held down the option key to boot into the windows side, it didn't show up as an option.
When I went back into the Mac side, I loaded Disk Utility and saw that I had the Mac partition, the BOOTCAMP partition, and a bunch of unallocated space. When I went into the System Preferences and set the target boot drive to the BOOTCAMP partition and restarted, I got some crazy error about there not being any bootable info on it.
That's where I am at. I have found other posts with people who are having the same problem, but I have yet to find a solution that doesn't involve me buying some 3rd party software. I know it has something to do with (what is called in Microsoft world) the Master Boot Record, but I don't know how to modify that to reflect that the BOOTCAMP partition is a bootable logical drive. I remember in MS DOS land there was some command line FDSK /something command that you would run (I think it was /MBR) to reset the MBR. To me though, all of these terms are shadowy figures in the Ether.
What do I do???
-Ricardo
p.s. I read somewhere to boot off the windows 7 disk and run the system repair tools. I tried that and no change.

I got it. It CAN be done. At least on 10.6
How I made it happen (for free) on Snow Leopard:
1) partition, dupe etc all that jazz that you know. Make the mac side work, which it seems we've all been able to do no issues. I used SuperDuper! It worked just fine. (Had it on a disk. I assume you could use any other free way of doing this.)
2) New hard drive running, I used bootcamp assistant to partition the new drive for a new Bootcamp. I don't know if it's necessary to make the new partition this way for some reason, but it's what the process ultimately included, so maybe try without, but it worked with.
3) Natively running original drive on the windows side. Used DirveImage XML to clone windows partition onto new drive connected externally.
4) Back on new hard drive running natively. (Sorry for all the switching.) You'll note that the new Bootcamp partition is NOT bootable at this point. It won't come up in the usual 'alt on startup' boot menu.
Download rEFInd and install on mac side. Technically this is freeware or w/e, but for the love of god, throw money at this man. He totally deserves it.
5) Restarting the computer, rEFInd's boot manager finally recognizes windows. But you'll find windows is a little messed up and still won't quite boot. Get out your Windows CD and pop it in. Do the 'alt boot' thing. Your boot menu options are now "EFI Manager," "Bootcamp," and "Windows Disk." Or some such. Holy Crap! It recognizes Windows!
6) Boot to the CD and tell it to repair the windows volume. It will. My computer also had to do a disk check next time I booted to Windows, which took for-stupid-ever, but eventually worked. (I went to bed in between.)
7) Everything is running smoothly. Plus, you get the rEFInd boot manager, which is also great.
Deets: I have a late 2010 MBP 13". Snow leopard/Windows 7 32-bit (long story) Moved from original 320GB seagate momentus to new 750GB Seagate Momentus XT.
Feel free to share/copy&paste this solution as you see useful. Cheers!

Windows 7 partition disappeared?

So as I was creating a partition for Windows 7 (500 GB, leaving the Mac partition with 100 GB to spare), it gave me some sort of error about files and what-not (I apologize for not remembering). I then proceeded to click okay, and I tried to create a new partition with the same GB space, but this time, as I was using safari, my iMac froze and I decided to turn off the computer and turn it back on again. After that I immediately went back to bootcamp, and tried to make another partition, but this time, I only had 77 GB to add to the already 20 GB Windows 7 partition. Meaning I only have 97 GB left on my iMac. Did my partition disappear with all that storage? Please help me.
iMac version 10.6.8

That program, NTFS 3G, has nothing to do with whether or not you have a Win 7 partition and whether or not it is still on your drive or has disappeared.
Open System Preferences and go to Startup Disk. Is the Win 7 partition listed as a startup drive? If it is then it hasn't disappeared, it still there. Another way to get to it is to hold down the Option/Alt key at startup. That brings up a BOOT Menu screen where you can select which partition to boot from. Is the Win 7 partition listed? If it is then it hasn't disappeared.
But that program you installed has been corrupted in some way and not loading. That program, NTFS 3G, is for Mac OS X to Write to NTFS formatted partitions which natively it Can't Do.

The disk space disappears after bootcamp failed in deleting the windows partition.

Hardware: Macbook Pro 700
OS: Lion v10.7
1. I installed Windows 7 in my mac. The space of Windows partition is 80G.
2. Some dlls of Windows will always disappear and at last the Windows cannot be started successfully.
3. Yesterday I updated Lion and started the bootcamp to remove the Windows partition. But bootcamp throwed an error(I forget what the error is).
4. I started bootcamp again to try to remove the Windows partition, but there is only create Windows partition in the options.
5. I started the Disk Utilities and verified the disk. The reported result was that there were some errors in disk.
6. So I restarted the machine and pressed COMMAND+R and entered the Disk Utilities to repair the disk.
7. After repairing the disk, there are no errors in disk now. But 80G space disappears.
Now my whole disk is still 320G, but the mac partition is 238G.
How can I repair it? Please help me.
Some logs in system:
Mar 8 04:54:44 ko-hitoshimatoMacBook-Pro com.apple.kextd[10]: Error reconsidering volume /Volumes/BOOTCAMP.
Mar 8 04:57:25 ko-hitoshimatoMacBook-Pro fseventsd[18]: log dir: /Volumes/BOOTCAMP/.fseventsd getting new uuid: 399DDE3E-37D7-43A8-8BD1-049EF76C803F

Figured it out myself! I didn't have any ports open on my MBP for LAN access....
Bob

HT201456 I have tried to install Windows 8.1 64 on my new Mac Book Pro from a full install disc.

I have tried to install Windows 8.1 64 on my new Mac Book Pro from a full install disc. When I get the the choice of partitions to install Windows 8.1 on the Windows installer says that the Bootcamp partition is not valid.
Has anyone encountered the same issue?

BCA creates the partition as FAT, which the installer needs to format.
Please see https://help.apple.com/bootcamp/mac/5.0/help/#/bcmp173b3bf2 for reference. Where does it break in your case?

Bootcamp will no longer boot after deleting partition #3 of my new Mac Mini. What happened? Was it the way I tried to reclaim the HDD space for Mac?

Here's my dilemma. I have a new Mac Mini - a week old. I installed Windows 7 on it using Mac's Bootcamp assistant. I then set up and configured my Windows 7 world and everything worked fine. No issues logging in between Lion or Win7 via the restart/option key procedure. Well, yesterday I split my Mac HD partition one more time to create a third partition (was created as an "extra", e.g. possible future partition for another operating system). After creating it, I then decided that I didn't really need it. So I deleted it in Disk Utility and attempted to drag the Mac HD partition line downward so as to "fill in the gap" and reclaim the lost hardrive space. It seemed as if I could reclaim about 1 gig or so, but I figured...oh well.
Well, the Mac HD partition seems to work just fine, but now I've noticed that I can't get into the Bootcamp partition anymore. It wont boot. If I try to verify the partition [doesn't even give me "repair" as an option), then it fails and gives me the following error message: "verify volume failed. invalid request." When I go to the Startup Disk option in my System Preferences section, it displays the bootcamp partition as a folder and not as a drive anymore.
I'm assuming that I messed up some permissions or lost some vital links during my attempted resizing/reclaiming of harddrive space. How do I fix this without having to reload either all of my Mac info or all or my Win7 info? I'd hate to consider the last two days of my life loading this crap up a complete loss.
Thanks in advance!

Thanks for checking in, BDAQua.
Problem solved.
In the docs that came with my Powerlogix accelerator card, I found this sentence buried:
"If you reset the PRAM, the NVRAM code for OS9 compatibility is cleared, so you will have to boot from the Firmawre Update CD and perform this process again in order to boot in OS9."
The "process" it's referring to is the process of setting up the NVRAM for booting into OS9 from the CD.
Fortunately, I was able to find the disk, and it worked as expected. I can now, once again boot into OS9.
Conclusion: My (unadvised) attempt to load Leopard on this old machine apparently reset the PRAM on the accelerator card and cleared the NVRAM code for OS9 boot. Although I did attempt to reset the NVRAM via Open Firmware, it did not reset it on the accelerator card.
So, thank you BDAQua, for your "Ah yes" . . . that's all I needed to steer me in the right direction.
Gratefully,
tupester

Cannot install windows 7 on brand new mac mini with 256 g sdd? Please help.

Cannot install windows 7 on brand new mac mini with 256 g sdd? Please help.
Have tried all tricks found on the net and followed every advice from apple support.
Still black screen with blinking curser when mini is rebooting following partitioning via bootcamp.
Very nice and fast mashine, wouldnt like to return it.
thanks allan

Is that an Apple SSD?
what model is it?
Is there a firmware update if non Apple?
Lion is not server version.
Windows is ? ISO or retail?
Google macmini Windows 7 SSD Apple Boot Camp

How to install windows xp on bootcamp on new Mac mini?

How can i install windows xp on bootcamp on new Mac mini?
I know that i should get an external usb optical drive, but buying such hardware for one use is a waste of money. Is there any other method?
I currently own a MacBook white, and really like the configuration. I it possible to copy the image of bootcamp to new mac mini? If so, what will happen to hardware and drivers?

Admiralali wrote:
Let me get this right:
1- copy the exact image of the winxp installation dc to USB
2- start bootcamp assistant, go through everything, till rebooting
3- boot from USB (hold ALT and select the USB volume)
4- go through winxp setup and done!
Am I missing anything?
I think that USB would be readable only on Mac os or winxp, but will the winxp installer read from USB?
Correct me if wrong.
Having read further websites, I am now a bit more dubious you can do this, at least with an XP installer.
However if you have a USB memory stick and an existing Windows computer (even a Boot Camp one) or can borrow one you could try using the free WinToFlash utility to make a supposedly bootable USB memory stick of the installer. See http://wintoflash.com/overview/en/
The problem is XP predates EFI firmare and XP only really knows BIOS firmware. As such (supposedly) XP would have problems booting from a USB device fully - it might lose connection part way through. Windows Vista and 7 do support EFI firmware.
The other approach I mentioned of temporarily moving the hard disk from the Mini to the MacBook so you can use the MacBook internal CD/DVD drive would work - be careful of the cables. Fortunately a new Mac mini and an old MacBook are two of the easier models to get at the hard disk. See http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook-Core-2-Duo-Hard-Drive-Replacement/514/1 (they also list other MacBook models) and http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Installing-Mac-Mini-Mid-2011-Hard-Drive-Replacement/ 6422/1
Regardless of which method you try, the first step would be on the Mac mini to run Boot Camp Assistant and to create the partition for Windows. Then via either method try booting from a Windows XP installer.
As I have taken Macs apart many times, I personally might go the swapping the hard disk over route.

Accessing files on boot camp windows partition and Mac OSx partition

Before I install Windows 7 64 bit on my iMac using Apple's instruction manual, I have a question. The manual states:
*+FAT—Provides better compatibility, allowing you to read and write files on the Windows volume from Mac OS X. This partition must be 32 GB or smaller.+*
*+If you’re installing Windows Vista or Windows 7, the Windows partition must use the NTFS format.+*
I can read, but I want to be sure I understand these two statements as they relate to each other. Because the Windows 7 partition must be NTFS format, does this mean that there is no way to read, write or copy files from one partition to the other, no matter what the partition size is?
If that is the case, I assume the best way to move files from one partition to the other would be to use a flash drive or is that also not possible due to the file format on the flash drive? I also have an external hard drive used for time machine. Any way to use that?
How will I move files from one partition to the other? And yes, I really want to do this.

Hi,
ifarber wrote:
Hi Stefan --
Could you explain how using an external HD helps? If I wanted to use an external HD for read/write access from both Snow Leopard and Windows (XP and/or 7), would it need to be in a particular format? (No partitions - this would be a new, empty drive.) If, for example, I formatted it as NTFS, could OSX write to it if it were external?
Since I don't have/use files that are bigger than 4GB in size I am able to use FAT32 as file system on the mentioned external harddisk and flash drives.
Whether I use the harddisk or a flash drive for file transport depends for me on the amount of files I have to move.
Up to 8GB of files I move with a flash drive, everything above that I use the harddisk.
Stefan

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