Tecra A11 - Solid state hard drive boot issue

I have an A11 PTSE0A-088021 and am attempting to install a Kingston 64GB SSHD.
When I boot it is displayed in the POST and also in BIOS.
When in the Windows 7 pre installation environment the drive is displayed in "Where do you want to install windows". I can see the drive and the partition, delete and create a new partiton.
Message "Windows cannot be installed to disk 0 partiton 1. (show details).
Details > Windows cannot be installed to this disk.
The computers hardware may not support booting to this disk.
Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the computers BIOS menu.
I have checked drive in BIOS and seems to be in order.
Are there controller drivers required for this drive? Toshiba hardware or Kingston?
Does anyone know of a controller driver needed as I have searched the web and cannot find controller driver for this drive.
I didn't think there should be any drivers required to install windows to a solid state drive but there must be something out there. Assistance appreciated.

Update.
Ran recovery cd's and recovery proccess appeared to complete successfully but when rebooted after completion OS still fails to boot. Message is "Insert system disk in drive. Press any key when ready..."
From what I can gather researching other forums it appears the sata controller driver is missing or corrupt.
When I boot to startup repair console from the windows 7 cd it states windows found problems with your computers startup options. Do you want to apply repairs and restart?
Repair details:
The following startup options will be repaired:
Name: {bootmgr}
Indentifier: {9DEA862C-5CDD-4E70-ACC1-F32B344D4795}
The following startup options will be added:
Name: Windows 7 Professional (recovered)
Path: Windows
Windows Device: Partiton=C (49626MB)
A copy of the current boot configuration data will be saved as: D:\Boot\BCD.Backup.0002
Repair and restart
Failed to save startup options
If I click add drivers and browse to computer I see
S3A8345D003 (C:)
System (D:)
Boot (X:)
When I reboot I get same error as stated above "Insert system disk in drive. Press any key when ready..."
If I boot all the way to the Where do you want to install windows? Windows cannot be installed to Disk 0 Partition 2. (Show details) Windows cannot be installed to this disk.... as mentioned in first post.
It looks like the recovery cd set I created did it's job and created the new partitons as per factory recovery.
Disk 0 partiton 1: System 1.5GB System
Disk 0 partiton 2: S3A8345D003 48GB Primary
Disk 0 partiton 3: HDDRECOVERY 9.7GB Primary
Also ran commands from command prompt
bootrec /fixmbr completed successully
bootrec /fixboot The volume does not contain a recognized file system.
Please make sure that all required file system drivers are loaded and that the volume is not corrupted.
bootrec /rebuildbcd Successfully scanned windows installations.
Total identified windows installations: 1
[1] C:\Windows
Add installation to boot list? yes(Y)/No(N)/All(A):
Type Y for yes.
The requested system device cannot be found.
The only solution I can see is to install the latest sata controller for this model A11.

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