In short the drive you are using is formated using an older Master Boot Record (mbr) but your bios is configured for UEFI (Unified Extensable Firmware Interface) which does not work with MBR and only works with drives formated with GPT (GUID Partition Table).
What you need to do is clear the drive of all partitions, not a huge deal. I think the quick and dirty ways to do this....
1. Enable Legacy Boot Rom in the Bios and boot and wipe the drive then reboot, set it back to UEFI no legacy boot and try installing again.
2. You could slave the drive into another system and wipe it.
3. Or you can go into the repair options from the windows 8 boot disk get to the command prompt, use diskpart to clean the drive.
After the drive is clean and free of the MBR the install should take place with out issue. W8 will detect the UEFI and format and install accordingly.
You will want to go with UEFI over the legacy boot option. Should you ever want to use like a rapid start with a cache SSD you need it UEFI, not to mention I think it boots faster in my experience. Rapid start with a cache ssd loads super fast. I got the bosses laptop (dell XPS 24) going after the helpdesk staff tried to be tech staff and they wiped the drive and reset the bios and could not get it going again. Got it all set up in a hour or so and it power on to log in around 6 seconds, it wakes from sleep instantly.
Good Luck.