woodmeister50 wrote:
As it has been since the beginning, Windows can only boot
from internal drives or partitions on internal drives. Windows
cannot be booted, other than installers, from any external drive.
This is not a Mac limitation but a Windows limitation.
If this has changed for Win8, perhaps the bootloader in the Mini
does not realize this and needs to be updated when an update
is available.
This is an installer, if you had read the OP. This question has nothing to do with windows really. I could have installed Ubuntu on this machine, and be trying to change to Win7.
The whole point is that because when I partitioned the drive there is NO OSX on the machine, I can't get any bootable usb stick media to load.
Man, you mention the word windows here and everyone freaks out, like the apple police shouting its not supported and you said the word windows so go somewhere else!
Nobody even bothers to read the question- is there any way to tell the mac mini to boot from a BOOTABLE USB stick if there is NO OSX on the machine? On non mac machines would go into bios and change the boot order.
Judging by the non useful responses (aside from Linc who actually had some helpful answers) I would say the answer is no.