installing windows 10 on a mac mini 2,1

Mac mini 2,1 devices are tricky, they are 64bit, but have a 32bit EFI.  booting a usb to install windows isn't going to work.

my internal cdrom drive is faulty, so can't use that
an external cdrom won't install either.

The easiest way to install it, is to boot the mac mini into target disk mode (hold T on boot).  Then connect a firewire cable to another system.  The internal disk in the mini will now show up as a disk on this other system.

create a 4GB NTFS primary partition.
copy the contents of windows 10 x32 cdrom onto it
make the partition active with diskpart (select disk X/select partion X/active)
put a bootsector on it. from cdrom \boot\bootsect.exe /nt60 y:

reboot mini, and it will install windows from the internal disk.

thanks to https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/619313/clean-install-windows-directly-from-the-hard-disk-drive/

drivers are fun, get apple ir, bluetooth etc from bootcamp 4.0.4326 and extract the sigmatel audio drivers, and force install them as an 'update driver' 'have disk' action
more here https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/5dsvur/installation_of_win10_x64_on_2006_macbook21_2008/

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