Trying to install fresh over windows 8, constant error messages

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Good evening,

My father has a windows 8 laptop with tons of viruses, I'm trying to install windows 7 clean. Already navigated through bios and disabled Secure Boot, now when I run the installer it says that I must have a partition within my boot that has at least 691 free mb of space for temporary files. I have created multiple partitions with different formats in order to fix this (there's 700 gigs of free space on the main boot partition) and they all give me the same error. I'm a windows 7 jockey and I don't know much on 8 but it seems they've made things much more complicated with installing. Any idea/suggestions?
 
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Right.
Is there anything on that system you need to keep? With "tons of viruses", I wouldn't.
The system is simply too full, of mostly virus stuff.

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You're probably trying to install to an already full or incorrect partition.
When it asks 'where', select Custom.
Delete all the existing partitions, ending up with one big space.
Format
Then let Windows install, creating what it needs.
 
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I am assuming that the mention of multiple partitions refers to the fact that dada had separate OS / Programs / Data to some extent and you are trying to retain these. If that's the case, I would copy all that off temporarily to someone else and delete the all volumes and start fresh.
 
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I'm not booting to the Cd-rom, i'm running the install from the CD, a bios switch of boot priority didn't do anything for some reason. I hit the "install now" on the windows 7 run and it says "copying temporary files" and then pops up that space error message, it doesn't give me the opportunity to choose where i'm installing to.
 
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Yes, my Fathers computer has multiple partitions on the main hard drive, for "recovery", but no he isn't trying to save anything I just want a clean wipe. I can't make the new partition active because the option is grayed out, and I cannot delete the current ones manually, even if I create a new partition with nothing on it, formatted or not, I get the same error, which I only started receiving after I disabled Secure Boot, which killed the install almost immediately.
 
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Right.
Is there anything on that system you need to keep? With "tons of viruses", I wouldn't.
The system is simply too full, of mostly virus stuff.

Boot from the DVD, wipe, reinstall.
 
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