Windows 8/10 boot to black screen during installation

Alright, I have a 2011 macbook air and I needed to re-install windows 8 because I wanted to change the bootcamp partition size. However, once I get to the stage "windows is preparing your pc" , which is right after installation, but before I create a username/account, my screen goes black. A restart will result in the windows icon and right when it should boot to the login screen the screen goes and stays black again and no cursor ever appears and ctrl-alt-delete doesn't have an affect.

So I installed windows 10 preview and the black screen happens when windows update looks for a display or graphics driver. With windows 10 build 10130 I was able to boot into safemode and disable both those drivers and windows would boot into the login screen and everything would be perfect. However, the RTM (10240) build caused the issue to come back during its installation and safemode could not work since it appears to not work if the system is trying to install an update.

So I wiped the partition and attempted to install windows 8 again and the same thing happened as above except an attempt to put it into safemode ended with an error code 0X000...5c. Is there a way around this? My goal is to install a working copy of windows 8 so I can upgrade to windows 10. The final released copy of windows 10 worked with the trick I did with build 10130, but it was recognized as not activated.