Problem with Superdrive (?) and a few questions

Hello, everyone,
Yesterday I bought my Mac Mini and soon I wanted to test the dvd player. I popped in Casino Royale and then it started.... I heard a few noises but the DVD did not appear on my desktop. First I thought that perhaps I had the wrong side up but that didn't help the problem. The dock didn't respond anymore. I pressed the eject button on my keyboard... no dice. In the end I decided to reboot but even that didn't work.
I was forced to cold reboot the Mini by holding the power button and then pressing it again. To my relief the mini restarted and this time he recognized the DVD. The question now is:
why did the mini react the way he did?
Perhaps there was something I needed to do before popping in a dvd or cd? I tested the drive with different cd's and dvd's. Now there are no more problems.
Ah, yes, some other questions.
1. I have a 1 terabyte usb drive that I used to use with Windows. Now I want to create a partition on it to use with the mac. Is there a program that I can use? I want to keep the data on it and create a partition for the mac. So I have 2 partitions: 1 with NTFS and 1 with Mac.
2. Is it possible to boot install Windows on a USB drive and create a dualboot with Bootcamp?
Thank you for your time and effort.
Marc

I did create an extended journaled partition and a ntfs partition. I still use that drive for windows so guid is not an option.
As for boot camp, at 1 time I installed snow leopard on a external drive to see if I could use the internal drive solely for windows...nope.
It looks like I'm looking for the impossible. So I indicated that my question has been answered.
Thanks for your help, David.

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I've been configuring Arch on my new laptop the last few days and today as I was going to perform the first backup, I noticed that my external HDD does not show up in /dev/ when I plug it in. I figured it could be a problem with udev and the fact that in my /etc/rc.conf I use MOD_AUTOLOAD="no" with an explicit list of MODULES generated with hwdetect (as suggested in the wiki).
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I forgot to add that this is a stock Pre. There are no patches or homebrew apps.
Edit:
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