MBP 2011 15" HDD Problems

I own a Macbook Pro 2011 15" I bought in August 2011, recently I had a problem where the internal hard disk wasn't recognized and i had to take it to apple for repair. There is a dent above where the hard disk is located on the case which happened about a year before it failed on me. But after taking it to apple, they said my Apple Care wouldnt cover the repairs as it was caused by the dent. I took my laptop home and opened it up, and I tried the Hard Drive on a pc, it worked fine - despite apple telling me i needed a replacement. So now I'm thinking its the SATA cable which goes to motherboard, because i tried a brand new hard drive in it as well, and it wasn't detected either. Could somebody suggest the best place to get these cables? Do Apple replace them if you ask?

The best places on the Internet are iFixit.com and PowerBookMedic.com for parts.  I think Apple would do the repair and it should not be too expensive.
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