Windows 8 woes on bootcamp/partitioning/help please!

So, I ordered a copy of windows 8 OEM edition 64bit. I'm on a late 2012 macbook pro 13 inch with mac os x 10 mountain lion.
I recieved it, started up bootcamp did as it said and then when i came to installing windows the partitioned hard drive I'd created (100gb) for windows wasn't useable. Windows 8 said "can't use *bootcamp partition I forget the exact name/perhaps partition 4*. Windows gave me the option to format the drive. So i did. And the drive was then obviously no longer boot camp and has turned into a standard NTFS drive (I'm not that clued up on this go easy on the terminology for me!). In short, I then continued to install windows 8 on a none bootcamp partition.
This installation doesn't have the drivers needed (probably from bootcamp) for use of the macbooks dvd drive or the volume/media/keyboard light buttons it doesn't recognise the wifi card or anything..
So i guess I need to know these things:
1) how do I uninstall windows 8 from that partition and then restore that partition to recreate the whole, original volume? Is there a way of uninstalling windows that means I can use it again (i.e. I don't want to be paying another £60 for the privilage of a new license)
2) how do I do the PROPER bootcamp installation? and what happens if I hit that bit where windows 8 doesn't like the bootcamp partition i created?(i know not to format the hard drive now!)
Thanks for any help guys, much appreciated!

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities
First of all, Boot Camp isn't compatible with Windows 8 because Apple hasn't released Boot Camp drivers for it, so do it at your own risk. If you don't want to break the Mac, install Windows 7.
SlugsForBrows wrote:
1) how do I uninstall windows 8 from that partition and then restore that partition to recreate the whole, original volume? Is there a way of uninstalling windows that means I can use it again (i.e. I don't want to be paying another £60 for the privilage of a new license)
If you didn't erase OS X, press X key while your Mac is starting to start into OS X, open Boot Camp Assistant and follow the steps to erase the Boot Camp volume.
SlugsForBrows wrote:
2) how do I do the PROPER bootcamp installation? and what happens if I hit that bit where windows 8 doesn't like the bootcamp partition i created?(i know not to format the hard drive now!)
Thanks for any help guys, much appreciated!
Open Boot Camp Assistant and follow the steps to install Windows. When you are on the partitioning screen, format only the BOOTCAMP volume and install Windows on it.
Boot Camp Assistant will ask you to download the drivers, but now they are useless for Windows 8

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