How to install Windows? Missing checkbox in Boot Camp.

When I try to install windows 8 Boot Camp seems not want me to create an installation disk. The support pages show me some Boot Camp screen where one can choose to create an installation disk, but my Boot Camp does not show the same three options.
I cannot select "Maak een installatieschijf voor Windows 7 of hoger aan" (create installation disk).
If I prepare an USB stick with an Windows 8 iso myself and go on from there, Boot Camp seems not to recognize the Windows 8 iso, even if the Boot Camp help files are installed on the same stick.
What to do?
My Boot Camp assistant:

Thnx. My MBP has a built-in optical drive, so that explains the first screen without the option to create the installation disk.
So the problem remains to get Boot Camp recognize the installation disk. I tried to create an 8 GB (and after that even a 16 GB) installation disk on a USB stick and add the Boot Camp files to this stick. Next screen, Boot Camp still asks to insert the Windows Installation Disk. After that I burned the iso on a new DVD to be able to insert an original disk in the optical drive, but even this did not work out.
Today I called Microsoft to tell me whether I was taking the right steps, but this guy couldn't help me either. "I should not install windows in a partition, but I should use parallels to install it under iOS..." ?
The iso I have is an original disk image of Windows 8.1 Pro NL, meant to make a clean install. So what am I doing wrong?

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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5639
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