partition a mac mini

As I said, M1 / M2 Macs cannot run any commercial version of Windows in any way.

Parallels Desktop will let you run the ARM64 Insider Preview version of Windows 11. It's technically a work in progress, not a public release, and is not compatible with most regular Windows applications. You can only run ARM based applications on it, and it's not released to the general public yet. As such, there is no real support for it from Microsoft or Apple.

If you need to run Windows and Windows applications, do not choose an M1 / M2 Mac at this time.

If you buy an M1 Mac mini, you cannot use Bootcamp or run an actual released version of Windows on it.

If you buy an older Intel Mac mini, then you can install Windows using Bootcamp as shown the support document you posted from. That is the only way to do this. You can partition the drive or use a secondary drive to install Windows onto.

For light (Windows 10 on Intel Mac) use I'd recommend VMware Fusion 12 which is free for personal use for macOS 10.15 Catalina and newer. It shares the Mac volume. If that is not fast enough, then consider Bootcamp.

Rob683 wrote:

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How should I partition the drive?

That will depend on your specific needs. Windows will likely want at least 80GB of storage. If you plan on using many Windows app, consider ,ore storage as required, when partitioning the drive. Bootcamp will guide you through the partitioning process.