I want to Install Windows 8 Pro with Bootcamp

I have Windows 8 running currently on Parellals 8. I cannot enter my product key for Windows yet but can use my flight simulater which works perfectly. I have tried to install Windows 8 using bootcamp (just to keep up to date) but keep getting the error
"Your Bootable USB drive could not be created An error occurred while formatting the disk"
This is using a 32 GB Adata S107 USB 3 stick and Windows 8 Pro on disk. The Windows 8 is a full version. All I do is drag the disk icon from my desktop to the ISO image space on Create Bootable USB Drive for Windows Installation page. Then I get the error.
How do I install Windows 8 full version onto my MBP Retina 2.6 GHz with Bootcamp?

I really dislike Win 8. It is made for desktops and tablets but is bad on the desktop.
During the public beta, MS gave users a way to bypass the Metro interface (MS themselves no longer call it Metro. Lord knows why). Just before the official release, they declared Metro was so great, everyone should be forced to use a tablet interface on a desktop computer and removed the simple option to bypass it. It didn't take long for others to develop and release ways to get around that. Here's three options. The first two cost a few bucks. The last is a freebie.
https://licensing.thinix.com/products/Product.aspx?ProductID=6472
http://www.startisback.com/#download-tab
http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/35189-Windows-7-explorer-for-Windows-8
As I don't have Win 8 myself, I have not tried any of these. On the last link the author of the freebie (next to the word Download) even notes the second option, StartIsBack, is better than his attempt.
Overall, I've read that Win 8 is better than Win 7 as far as performance. Faster and better security. It's the Metro interface many people can't stand.

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Well, "WHICH" Mac do you have?
Go to the Apple menu (upper left corner)/About This Mac/More Info and at the top (under Hardware content) it should say "Model name" and "Identifier". Then put it in your profile so you don't have to keep remembering to do it.:)
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*sigh*

I use VMware now, but it surely eats A LOT of memory
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I have been trying to no avail to install windows 7 on my new macbook pro
with bootcamp in yosemite 10.10
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Boot Camp: Partition alert message when using Boot Camp Assistant - Apple Support
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203913
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http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204009
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You are correct, the SSD is in the normal HD drive bay and the storage HD is in the DVD drive bay. I wanted to install windows on my non-SSD drive since I only have a few gigs of space on that drive. I have read that for bootcamp to work to completeness the DVD drive must be in the correct bay and not by USB. But I also read that since the latest update bootcamp recognizes non-bay DVD drives like the ones attached via USB.
I can get the installation to start, as I originally said. But it hangs on the "loading windows files" screen. This is my problem. I can get everything else to work, bootcamp makes a partition and all that.

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