HP Pavilion dv4-2045dx

One of my friends gave me his unused HP Pavilion dv4-2045dx because it had a lot of problems that he could not fix, i so far have succeeded in fixing all but one "no bootable disk", it wont boot up the hard drive, i thought at first it was bundled into the screen remaining black fter a bios update so i reverted back to the f17 bios but still no hard drive, i took it out and placed it into a different laptop, ran chipperly 
windows 7
2gb ram
turion II processor
320gb hdd
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one of 2 things
bad hard drive cable that connects it to the system board, replace cable.
bad hard drive controller, replace system board to repair.

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