Issues with boot camp on iMac 5K

I'm trying to dual boot my iMac 5K with Windows 8. Initially, I used the windows media creation tool to set up my USB stick with the windows installation process. This was giving me an error relating to the partition format, can't remember the exact error though. So I torrented a copy of windows 8 (I have a valid activation key that I purchased). I used Boot Camp Assistant to create the Windows install USB stick, the support software, and the partition. When my computer restarts in to the Windows installation, I enter my activation key, select the software to install, and the bootcamp-created partition. The installer tells me that I can't install Windows on this partition, so I clicked the format button AND ran diskpart to format it to NTFS. This resulted in an error saying "we couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one." I've been reading through forums and trying things for the last six or so hours and figured it was time for me to turn to asking my own question.
Thanks in advance

Here's the output of diskutil list. I deleted the partition that I was going to install Windows on, but it was part of disk1.
Matts-iMac:~ maltepet$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         121.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk0s3
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *1.0 TB     disk1
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         999.3 GB   disk1s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk1s4
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           *1.1 TB     disk2
                                 Logical Volume on disk0s2, disk1s2
                                 616996D1-2052-4C88-B4E4-7524ED71468E
                                 Unencrypted Fusion Drive
/dev/disk3
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *16.0 GB    disk3
   1:                 DOS_FAT_32 WININSTALL              16.0 GB    disk3s1
/dev/disk4
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *4.0 TB     disk4
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk4s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Time Capsule            1.0 TB     disk4s2
   3:                  Apple_HFS External Drive          3.0 TB     disk4s3

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