Windows 8 Installation on partitioned drive

Hi!
This is my first question and sorry for my broken English.
I'm currently trying to install Windows 8 in my Macbook Pro 15" machine. But I got this as an error message.
"Windows cannot be installed on this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style."
I heard Bootcamp Assistant cannot handle multiple partitions scheme. Anyway to install Windows with 2 data partitions like this?
As a beginner, step-by-step guide wiil be appreciated.
Thanks!

Not sure about Windows 8 as I've never tried to install on a Mac but with Windows 7 you can't have more then one OS X partition as you won't be able to partition the drive in Boot Camp with more then one OS X partition.
Windows 7 and prior version of Windows can only be installed on a disk that has less then 4 Primary partitions amd the partition Windows in installed on must be a MBR partition. By default OS X create 3 partitions, one for OS X itself one for the EFI partition (200MBs) and one for the Recovery HD partition (650MBs) and they all look like Primary partitions to the Windows installer. Now Windows 8 has changed that so it will install to systems that are EFI based and in those system the drive must be a GPT type. But Boot Camp creates a sudo MBR partition for Windows to be installed on. But Yet with more then 4 primary partitions the Windows 8 installer see that and pops up an error because it is looking for a GPT partition to install on.
You can try booting back into OS X and them move all your data back to the Main OS X partition then remove those other 2 partitions you have created and then ReRun Boot Camp Assistant to partition the one and only OS X partition and start the Windows install.
It's kind of a FUBAR on both Apple's part and the Windows 8 installer that honestly Apple never thought out properly. If a Mac has more then one OS X partition then boot camp should not create a MBR partition for Windows to install to and or boot camp should not even allow you to partition the drive and start the installer for Win 8.

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