ASUS P4P800 (old!) Motherboard - boot from SATA?

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Hello,

Just playing! Trying to install Win 8 as a test on my old ASUS P4P800 which I have disconnected my Win XP HDD.

I have installed win 8 from the download BUT. It all installed OK but after completing and rebooting it will not detect the SATA (SSD) drive.

It did detect to upgrade the firmware and during the install cycle but now it just says "No boot media", but the Win8 install is still there! Try all possible configurations of IDE / Enhanced / SATA; SATA+PATA.

The drive does show up as "3rd IDE Master" in the boot screen but SATA doesn't appear to be bootable?

Any ideas please?
 
Just carried out a "Repair" and this seems to have sorted it (but there are exclamation marks on 1 of the ATA entries in device manager!)

Am I on a loser here?
 
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