Bootcamp Install, No Bootable Disk

Hi,
I was just in the process of installing Windows 8 on my Macbook Pro Late 2011 15" when after i partioned the hard drive, and restarted i had the no bootable disk error, with the black screen. I was attempting to use the Windows 8 ISO on a USB stick to boot, and presuming that it wasn't reading the ISO on the usb stick went on to burn the ISO onto a disk instead. But that hasn't worked either.
I'm now in a sort of limbo where i can't remove the partition that has nothing on, as the boot camp assistant won't allow me to remove it, and there is a device called Bootcam sitting in my Devices tab in Finder with the 125GB partition.
When I shut my mac down now it doesn't even attempt to go to the No Bootable Disk screen but goes straight to Mountain Lion.
Is there anyway I can restore the hard drive to the single volume and try bootcamp again? Or even get the burned disk working with the Windows 8 iso on?
I'm really struggling here so any help will be much appreciated.

Edit: I've managed to return the hard drive to a single volume,
I'd like to point out i'm using a MSDN copy of Windows 8 Pro 64 Bit,
Is there anything obvious that I did wrong the first time? I recall the bootcamp assistant not being able to find the ISO before i partioned the hard drive, until I chose to mount the ISO from the USB stick. And then obviously when i tried to boot it it wasn't mounted anymore. But then surely when i burned the ISO onto the disk it should have read it from there?

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geometry: 121601/255/63 [1953525168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
Starting
Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [
start -
size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [
1 -
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3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [1346786832 -
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Intel MBP with Mountain Lion. Using the assistant to bootcamp but in the select tasks menu, I only have two options to download Windows support software or to install Windows 7. I have no option to create a bootable disk, which I need to burn the iso onto a USB hard drive. Is there any way of fixing this? I've tried creating a bootable disk on another laptop but I can't boot from the external disk either.

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