Lenovo support - options for recovering Windows 8 on new X230

Hello, I recently purchased x230 with Windows 8.
I installed Ubuntu 12.0 (attempting to dual boot). Unfortuantely, Windows 8 is no longer accessible(UEFI error comes up on boot), the restore partition is also corrup ("required partition cannot be found").
I attempted to install win 8 PRO that I purchased from scratch. It failes because the Windows 8 key embedded into the EFI doesn't match the new Windows 8 PRO that I have on DVD.
I chatted with Lenovo support, asking to purchase restore DVDs for my laptop - I was told that it's not possible (after going thorugh a couple of people and wasting 1.5 hours on chat_
Please provide some support as it is unacceptable that I cannot install clean version of WIndows 8 and the restore disks are not available from Lenovo.
Thank You.

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