Cannot install Windows 8 on MacBook Air

I am trying to install Win 8.1 Pro with Boot Camp on a 13 inch MacBook Air (early 2014) with 4G RAM and 256G storage. The machine is a new purchase and the OS was upgraded from Mavericks to Yosemite before attempting to use Boot Camp.
I have made a number of attempts at this using both a USB/ISO and DVD in an external drive (non-Apple). All attempts fail at the same point where Windows setup attempts to install on the BOOTCAMP drive. The message is “Windows cannot be installed to this hard disk space. Windows must be installed to a partition formatted to NTFS.” There are 4 hard disks listed
Drive 0 partition 1:EFI   200 MB    173 MB freeSystem
Drive 0 partition 2        53.4GB      0.0MB free Primary
Drive 0 partition 3         619MB       0.0MB free Primary
Drive 0 partition 4:Bootcamp 179.5GB     179.5GB free Primary
On returning to OSX after this the Air works fine and Disk Utility has a Macintosh HD (57GB) and Bootcamp (format is MS-DOS FAT32) (192.7GB).
I have tried the following:
1. Ensuring that there was only one external device attached ie the USB created by Boot camp
2. Swapping the USB port ie have used both USB ports
3. Trying to install Win from a DVD
4. Different partition sizes
I am at a loss as to what to do next. Any suggestions welcome.
Bernard

1. Select Partition4: Bootcamp. You should see advanced Options.
2. Click Format and convert the partition to NTFS.
3. Click Next.
Reference - http://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1636/en_US/boot_camp_install-setup_ 10.8.pdf
See Page 6.

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