Cannot Install Windows 8 on Y480 with 1TB hard drive + 32GB ssd

After spending 12 hours on friday and 8 hours today doing screen share with techs from Microsoft, they have determined that Windows 8 will not install on this computer. Have tried everything from installing directly off of the hard drive, off a flash drive, off a dvd, to doing a complete clean install and nothing works.
Completely reformatting the hard drive was also attempted but the installation could not be completed becasue the partition I was installing on was oem restricted.
Anyone else had problems like this yet?

Ya, I'll definately keep ya'll updated. And I'm gonna keep messing with it to see if I can get it to work fairly efficiently.
In responce to superior, ya it'll work with pretty much any other laptop with a traditional hard drive, full ssd, or a company that updates the software on their machines for their customers when a major OS update is available. Hell, the release preview worked on my y480 through vmware. (It's definately a problem with the fact that the two drives are viewed as a single drive in 3 partitions, the main hdd, the sdd, and the backup hdd partition)
In terms of getting a refund, you may or may not need to have a case number with Microsoft, I'm not sure, but if i pursue that path, I'll definately post something.
If anyone is dead set on getting Win8 to work on their hybrid drive even if it isn't working completely efficiently, separate the ssd and hard drive using the Intel rapid utility so they show up as separate drives rather than separate partitions and then just install Win8 on the SSD. I'd advise you don't do this cause as I said, it entirely defeats the purpose of having a SSD since you'll need to store a majority of you data on the hard drive which isn't being accelerated with Rapid. Essentially, it would be near equivalent to having just a 5400rpm hard drive.

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