No recovery option in boot menu

Howdy.
I'm working on a Toshiba Satellite u845w-s400. The hard drive crapped out on me recently, so I replaced it with an SSD. Unfortunately, the factory installed tiny SSD with the recovery drive doesn't present an option to do any sort of repair or recovery when I try the "0" key or "F8" key for the boot menu when I restart my computer.
I can see the recovery partition in both linux or when I run a windows 7 installation from USB, but I can't access it. I'm currently seeing if fiddliong with some master boot file tools can fix the issue.
I tried installing the OS from a Windows 7 Professional USB image I used for my computer and hoped to pair it with the OEM label on the bottom of the computer, but no dice thus far. I sure as hell am not willing to pay Toshiba for a disk that can handle a simpler installation than plenty of complex builds and installs I've done over the last 20 years.
I also can't seem to find the right driver for the wi-fi on the computer, despite trying three different ones listed on the Toshiba support page and attempting to install via USB drive. They seem to extract the files, then do nothing else. Windows doesn't recognize them as relevant driver files when I try to manually update.
Am I overlooking some weird trick for either getting the recovery partition to be accessible or do I need some wireless driver that's not on the toshiba website?
Thanks

Your support site, including drivers, is here
I could be wrong but I don't think the recovery partition is on that 32GB mSATA ssd. I believe the hidden recovery partition is on your HDD. If the HDD is kaput, then you no longer have access to the recovery partition. Unless you made a set of recovery media while things were still working, then you'll have to order a set from Toshiba. Did you happen to create a backup image(s) of your system while it was still working. This is the best way to preserve your system in case of HDD failure.
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