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We got it running, thanks for your help. &nbsp;we found that he should not have manually partitioned the hard drive first but should have let boot camp do it for him. &nbsp;He went back and set the partition like it was at first and then let bootcamp do it's thing and then everything worked fine. &nbsp;<br />
Again, thanks for your help
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We got it running, thanks for your help.  we found that he should not have manually partitioned the hard drive first but should have let boot camp do it for him.  He went back and set the partition like it was at first and then let bootcamp do it's thing and then everything worked fine.  
Again, thanks for your help

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a friend of mine purchased a macbook air and partitioned the hard drive so he could install windows 8 on the empty partition. &nbsp;However windows 8 installation &nbsp;says it cannot install on that partition because it is not formated as GPT. &nbsp;How do we resolve this issue?
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a friend of mine purchased a macbook air and partitioned the hard drive so he could install windows 8 on the empty partition.  However windows 8 installation  says it cannot install on that partition because it is not formated as GPT.  How do we resolve this issue?

how to install windows 8 on a macbook air

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Windows 8

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