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I have two hard drives, one has Linux on it, the other one is empty(the MBR was also cleared with dd).
When I try to install Windows 8 on the empty hard drive I get this:
note: not my actual screenshot, an existing one was edited to depict my situtation.
Why I can't install Windows 8 on the empty hard drive?
I already answered my own question, the problem was that Windows doesn't like it when a drive isn't recognizable/isn't formatted to NTFS even if it's not the drive i'm installing on, same happened with Windows XP but that gave me something similar to "the other drive has to be formatted to NTFS I can put temporary installation on files on it"(as if it needs 2 drives to install on 1..) – page4096 – 2012-11-04T13:00:57.617