How can I wipe an encrypted device?
So, to do this I went to the mounts and storage and used the format /data and /system option. Apparently the other options by themselves (/data and /system) do a different thing. I have a feeling this rebuilt my partition table.

As Izzy suggested I had a look at manually formatting it but it seems that that route is a little short-lived. I'd reccomend for anyone reading this to make sure they try the /sdcard format on the recovery.

in CWM is has these options format /data format /cache and one that says format /data and /data/media (/sdcard) the latter works the former doesn't.