Solved Win 8 Pro can't find partition...
I get this error: when I try to clean install to a gpt format hdd. Haven't found setup txt yet. This will be Windows 8 Pro on an HP Pavilion G7-2243us, 500 gb hitachi hdd, and 4 gb memory.
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