How to use a usb with bootcamp on a computer with a cd drive

I have a macbook pro late 2011 and I want to install windows on it. I dont have any cds or dvds that I can burn and I want to be able to use a usb instead. I found another post which lets me make a bootable windows 8 usb but when I try to install it with bootcamp it just says no bootable device instert boot disk and press any key to try again and I cant install it even if i remove the usb and try again. I then powered off my computer and held down option and got the operating system chooser page and I saw efi boot. I selected that and I was able to boot into the setup for windows when it asks me where I want to install Windows, I choose Partition 4, the Bootcamp partition. It shows the error message that Windows cannot be installed because the selected disk is of the GPT partititon style so i try to format it in the setup but that fails and gives me the same error message. I dont know what to do. Can anyone help me?

Have you used Bootcamp Assistant to create the partition for Windows?
If your Mac came with a cd drive then you'll almost certainly need to use that cd drive to install Windows. Some have published workarounds by changing a .plist file but it is not always successful.

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