Install Windows 7 64-bit on SATELLITE A665-S5199X

I'm helping a friend with his laptop and his drive is completely toast (unrecoverable errors across the surface somehow).  It's out of warranty, so I'm using a flash drive of Windows 7 Home Premium along with his key from the Windows sticker on the bottom, and install won't begin.  I click Install, and I get a message stating that "A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing. If you have a driver floppy disk, CD, DVD, or USB flash drive, please insert it now."  I've tried pointing it to Intel Rapid Storage drivers thinking that it was a actually a HDD chipset problem, and I've physically removed the optical drive so it wouldn't look for drivers.  I found another thread mentioning ITE Tech storage drivers which I downloaded.  No dice.  What exactly is it looking for?

I also highly recommend buying Toshiba rstoration DVDs or media.   But,
Win7  isos to burn to DVD:
Windows 7 Home Premium 32Bit: http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/win/X17-58996.iso
Windows 7 Home Premium 64Bit: http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/win/X17-58997.iso
Windows 7 Professional 32Bit: http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/win/X17-59183.iso
Windows 7 Professional 64Bit: http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/win/X17-59186.iso
Windows 7 Ultimate 32Bit: http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/win/X17-59463.iso
Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit: http://msft.digitalrivercontent.net/win/X17-59465.iso
Use COA sticker on the laptop to activate, should work.  
There's a set of instructions, someplace, that Toshiba posted for the machines bought in summer 2009 that came with Vista but a free upgrade to Windows 7 when it was available.  There were some instructions for what order to load the Toshiba drivers, etc.    I upgraded my parents' A505-series machine to Windows 7 using that document.     This might be it, I dunno, I don't have any more time to search for it:
http://support.toshiba.com/support/viewContentDetail?contentId=2460108
Toshiba has obfuscated their Support downloads section and it's not so easy to locate information (for those older machines) that used to be easy to find.

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