I Need Help with Windows 8.1 Clean Install

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I'm a first-time builder, and I'm trying to perform a clean-install of Windows 8.1 OEM onto my machine. I got through the first reboot, and now Windows is asking me where I want to install it. It created a partition in my drive, so the setup screen looks like this:

Where do you want to install Windows?
Total Size Free Space Type
Drive 0 Partition 1: System Reserved 350.0 MB 316.0 MB System
Drive 0 Partition 2: 931.2 GB 923.3 GB Primary

It says I can't install in Partition 1, so do I need to create a new partition for it to install in or just select Partition 2?
 

Optimum

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Yeah, completely blank drive. I just got the thing working today. I'll do what you suggest.

Thank you!