Unable to reinstall Win8 after downgrade

I must be missing something very fundamental...
I have a brand new W530. It came with Windows 8 Pro. I bought the Windows 7 restore disks from Lenovo because I was too late in changing my order from Win8 to Win7. I installed the Windows 7 Pro platform...mostly painless provided you access the owners manual and read what BIOS settings must be changed in order to facilitate the downgrade (one thing not mentioned is the disabling of the secure boot feature). Now for undebatable reasons, I want to go back to the Windows 8 platform. BEFORE downgrading I created a USB Windows 8 restore drive (not rescue, but a full 14 GB installation). Now when I boot from the USB drive I do not see any option to reinstall Win 8. If I pick the USB device, the unit simply reboots back into the boot menu on the USB drive. IOW, I simply can not figure out how to reinstall Windows 8 Pro from the USB thumb drive. I hope I dont have to order the actual disks. Any suggestions?

OK...I got it doing something. Not at all intuitive! The link above describes having an image of Win8 on the target drive or a blank target...I have neither because the win7 disks overwrite everything and puts a win7 image in its place so I dont see Win8 as an option but I do see Win7 as the "target O/S". So I pick it and then HAD to pick "use current partitioning". It would not let me repartition the space...indicated the drive was too small...??? So the unit is at 45% of something...I still dont know what O/S I will end up with at the end. The process is not very intuitive at all...should be a button to "replace the current O/S" or "repair the current O/S". Will re-post at the end.
There doesn't seem to be any fully correct instructions because I didn't read anywhere that "secure boot" had to be turned off to even get anything started. I would think it to be a fairly easy and seamless process to go from win7 to win8 and vice versa especially on this machine.

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