well found out the dvds I have are not rewritable thus I keep getting write protected when trying to use them.
I tried using my usb flash drive but vaio recover didn't detect it (SanDisk cruzer 32gb) so I tried my micro usb card. Recovery got to 91% then sent an error message saying it wouldn't work. I tried booting up the ssd with what was on the micro usb but got nothing but error messages.
Looks like I'm going to go buy some dvd-rws tomorrow.