How do I get windows 8 on my iMac?

Question

Ok, spent too long doing this. I have a windows 8 iso I got from dreamspark. Since my dvd drive is very unreliable, I burnt it with a USB one. I booted the dvd on a BIOS computer, and it worked. I also tried a different computer, a macbook pro, which worked. My iMac, an iMac 8,1, will not boot it from either the build in dvd drive, or the usb. It just hangs at the emulated BIOS screen, either doing nothing, or with a flashing white underscore. I'm having trouble making a bootable usb for it, because I usually use Rufus, which is on windows only. I had windows on this machine prior to this, but it doesn't now because had problems with windows because all the junk I put on it, so I deleted it. If you could reccomend anything to help me, that would be great.
Thanks in advanced!

Answer 1

Hi Bob.
I was actually confused in trying to navigate where to ask the question in the first place within the Support Community framework. I've been away from the Apple world for many years now and obviously this world of technology moves very fast, yes? So that's the reason my opening query mentions confusion.
Before I visited here I spent quite some time Googling the topic finding tons of answers going back MOSTLY 6-8 years all of which were fairly specific and geared toward now obsolete versions of the question or assumed my Apple computer was up and running or I had an "unformated" external hard drive.
I didn't find anything wrong with the advice to use MacDrive but of course I was hoping not to have to use my credit card to do this------------what has to be fairly routine process. After I Googled "alternatives to MacDrive" I found a free ten day trial run for Paragon. It worked for all the picture files but can't see the old movie or music. I'm still working it out. Maybe I'm missing something. Anyways it's hard to communicate with experts who seem to want you to already be on a certain level or they will simply leave you in the dust with their "help."