Installing Windows 7 64bit on hp Envy 4t-1100

I'am having a bit of trouble getting Windows 7 installed on my new ultrabook (Envy 4t-1100). I do not like windows 8 and wish to continue to use Windows 7. I also installed an OCz Agility 3 240GB SSD in my laptop as well
At first I had a hard time getting the SSD to recognize in the BIOS but after some tinkering there is a setting the bios to enable CSM to allow legacy support for older OS.
Now I can boot to CD with the Win7 install CD. It gets to the point where it ask you where you would like to install the OS but I get a message "a required cd/dvd driver is missing" I found this
http://ava.co.uk/support/faq/general/a-required-cddvd-drive-device-driver-is-missing-windows-install...
Basically it says I need to load the driver for the CD to see my SSD.
So next I head over to HP's site for drivers and I have downloaded the Intel rapid storage driver and extracted it to a folder. I've installed that driver via USB Drive to no success. I've downloaded quite a few other drivers from HP's page but none of them seem to work. I'am at a loss as to which driver I need in order to get the install CD to recognize the SSD.
The salesperson whom I ordered this from assured me I could get Win7 loaded on this thing with no problems but I have never had such a hard time just loading windows.
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I managed to resolve this issue and succesfully installed Win 7 on this laptop.
Once I converted the Win 7 Iso to Bootable flash drive and began installing it I had to hit cancel once I got the "a required driver is needed" message. Once canceled go back to the main welcome screen for the Windows installation. Unplug the flash drive from the USB port and plug it into another port. Then continue like normal.
One note: I started the flash drive plugged into a USB 3.0 port, removed it after canceling and plugged it into the other 3.0 port. That did not work for me. For some reason I had to go from USB 3.0 to USB 2.0 port.
Never seen anything like it but I got it working. Thanks for all the help though!
Hope this helps someone else

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