Missing driver with windows 8.1 installing or restoring

Hi all,
If I try to do a clean install of windows 8.1 the installation routine tells me helpfully that I am missing a media driver. The only way I could get round this was to create a USB bootablke disc and then add ALL the lenovo drivers that I have down loaded cfrom the lenovo site. This worked and it appeared to scan the USB drive and find whatever it was looking for. I'm still none the wiser as to what it was missing.
This problem is compounded when you try to restore from a backup image created in windows (I have a new drive and wanted to clone my old system). It finds the restore image on the external USB drive but can't seem to find the internal drive. This time however it won't scan a folder but wants me to provide the location of the actual INF file for the missing driver.
Can anyone help? I am assuming its the data/drive controller but I can't find it anywhere.
Thanks

hi Rolf,
You most tikely have the Seagate ST500LX005 SSHD.
just to verify, using this guide as a reference, are you getting stucked at Step 7? Also, is the SATA Mode set to AHCI under BIOS?
When you get the prompt to provide the location of the actual INF file for the missing driver, can you consider the following:
1. Download the f6flpy-x64.zip file on either of the links below and extract it on a usb flashdrive.
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=22194
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=22676
2. Before running the system image recovery, insert the usb flashdrive and locate the iAAHCIC.inf / iaStorAC.inf file on flashdrive and use this path when you get the prompt to provide the location of the missing driver.
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