I've heard from multiple different sources that i could send it to Nintendo and they could fix it for $82 with shipping. One person told me that he called Nintendo and told them exactly what happened and there were no problems.
That's probably a better idea than buying a drive for $130 and...
About a year ago i installed a Wiikey and it worked perfectly without any hangups. Knowing that SSBB would not work with the modchip installed i decided to put in a switch to turn the modchip on and off. This didn't go so well and i decided to remove the modchip to make sure that it works...