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Yeah, you're right, if the BIOS doesn't see the drive at all, Ubuntu won't see it either, if the BIOS is just failing to see it as a bootable drive, it might. I think Ubuntu is normally better at picking up dud drives than Windows is but if the Mobo isn't thinking it's connected, it won't pick it up.
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I had that stuff in the past but it'll all be on optical discs and this doesn't have a CD drive, although I do still have an external drive so maybe. But the BIOS doesn't see it so I don't see how a linux boot cd would see it. I'm assuming it's very dead.