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Thanks for the replies guys. I've figured out the problem. The hard drive wasn't actually erasing the old winload.exe when I formatted it. I installed Ubuntu, told it to use 100% of the hard drive (to delete the old Windows files), then ran Windows 8 install again, formatted there, and it...

A friend of mine works at an electronics store and I received the ISO on a USB from them. They told me it indeed does work as they've used it themselves. The ISO includes both x86 and x64 versions of Win 8. The USB isn't bootable, just a way to store it for burning. The complete name for the ISO...

Thanks for your reply. Could you give a little explaination as to how I would go about checking for the criteria you've described above?

I currently have Win 7 Ultimate x64 on my rig, and have acquired Win 8 Pro x64. I've tried too many times now using the Win 7 USB/DVD Tool to create both a USB and DVD to boot and install Win 8. Whatever media I'm using at the time boots into installation just fine, but after the first initial...