MBP wont recognize drives after replacing SATA cable

Background: I decided to replace my existing drive with a SSD. While in the process of replacing the drive, like a morron, I picked up the drive too fast and ripped the SATA cable. Stupid, I know. So I ordered a replacement. Hooked up the replacement without any trouble, fired it up, the computer wont recognize any drives, formatted or not, SSD or HDD. So I thought "great, terrible luck, I must have gotten a bad cable." So I contacted the seller and they were kind enough to overnight me a new one. Hooked up the new one, same **** problem.
What on earth is going on here? The computer worked great before I ripped that cable, and now it's like it's just given up on reading drives all together. Is there anything I can try?
Please help! :/
(MBP is a mid 2010 if relevant)

Ok then you either have bad cables or you are not installing it correctly. Like not seating it properly on the logic board.
There is also a piece of foam on the top of the part that connects to the logic board. If you did not move that foam from the original to the replacements it could be shorting to the bootom case.

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