Error Code BIOHD-2 During Hard Drive Test No Drives Detected

I am working on a HP Pavilion p6214y Desktop PC.
Just to list the specs for any unusual problems:
OS = Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
MB = HP P/N: 513430-002 with AMD Athlon II x4 620 Quad Core
HD = Western Digital 1TB
Power = 350W LiteOn
Ram = 8G
I am getting a blue screen that shows 4 options and I chose F9 for diagnostics and it gave me error code BIOHD-2 when checking the hard drive. It said no hard drives were detected. I have read on this here and checked the bios and it does not find the hard drive. So most people then say it is a bad hard drive. Although, I put the drive into another computer and I can pull files up from the hard drive and view them. It finds the drive just fine in the bios. I also put a working hard drive from that other computer into this HP and it will not recognize a hard drive through the bios. Since the mother board is not recognizing hard drives throught the sata ports I would assume a mother board failure. I then put in a bootable usb version of Ubuntu 12.10. It runs smoothly and will access the internet and everything. So, from my small amount of knowledge, that means that the mother board is still ok, right? I do not believe that I have read anywhere that the motherboard can go bad only at the sata ports. Does anyone know if that is a possibility? Is there a chance that I could salvage the situation by purchasing a set of recovery disks for this specific model and just reinstalling everything? I have heard that they are usually $20 so that would be a cheap trial and error.
Also, it will make it to the recovery screen sometimes on the blue screen, but it won't do anything because the keyboard stops working at that point.
Just another tech junkie.
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Hi:
If you are running the ubuntu from the usb flash drive and not the hard drive, then yes, there is a definite possibility the motherboard sata controller has failed.
I believe the motherboard in your model is notorious for sata controller failures as is evidenced in these many threads below.
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/forums/searchpage/tab/message?filter=labels%2Clocation&location=categor...+

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