Recovery Disks not recognized on UEFI

Satellite L875D-S7332
So I recently bought this model, which came with win8. Then I downgraded it to win7 because I'm just not ready for win8's dual nature yet. Only problem is there's essentially 0 driver support on win7, installing them just causes a system recovery process which removes them.
So I ended up ordering the recovery USBs to put the pc back to win8 that way I'd have a working graphics card. However, the computer won't recognize them on UEFI bios, but it will in CSM bios (however if I run the usb on csm mode, the recovery process declares im not on uefi mode and quits out). Ended up calling toshiba, they said possibly the bootloader on the usb is corrupted and sent me a new one. Same deal, won't recognize on UEFI.
Now I have heard that win8 stores product key on the bios. If I was to get the win8 ISO from digitalrivercontent (or whatever that site is), would it work if I installed it on my own usb/dvd, or would I need to buy another product key (which I don't want to do)? As in would the product key built into my bios work or not?
And if I can somehow get either of the two USBs to work that toshiba sent me, how can I?
I saw the post from someone else on the forums that had the same problem as I, and said the usbs weren't uefi bootable. So what I'm planning to do soon on monday is to get my own usb, format it to be uefi bootable, and then transfer the toshiba usb's files over to that, and I'll see if that works.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/15458-uefi-bootable-usb-flash-drive-create-windows.html
follow 1-7
step 8 is copy all the files from toshiba's USB to your new USB

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