Hard drive recognition problem in BIOS...HELP

I have a Satellite A-135 S2256. A month or so ago it was in for the BIOS password error fix. Came back fine and worked well for about a week, then it went black screen on me. I had the video chip set/video chip reflowed and I now have the Toshiba start up screen and I can enter BIOS. BIOS shows Hard Disk: 1-ST9160310AS-(S1), Hard Disk: None. Brand new Hard disk. The old hard disk gets the same response. BIOS sees it but won't boot it. Boot menu shows the disk also. After exiting BIOS I am getting PXE-E61: Media test failure, check cable. This repeats over and over.....any help at all would be greatly appreciated. I was told by one firm that my OEM hard drive was bad, so I bought a new one. Another place told me the hard drive was fine and the motherboard was junk. It's only 2 years old!!!
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Is the item about the chips being reflowed something the shop did? If so, yike! That normally means applying heat so that the solder reflows and is not a procedure I'd want to undertake lightly. If the shop did all this and the system isn't working, I would insist the fix it at no additional charge. At least if I'm understanding what took place. Who transferred the drive data and what software did they use to do it? You might be best advised to call (800) 457-7777 and order recovery disks. They'll want the serial number of your machine and a credit card for the $19.95 shipping and handling. The recovery disks will restore the binary image of the original hard drive. Once you get the hard drive booting you can see about restoring data form the disks you have. The PXE-61 message says that there is no bootable device. The fact that the drive is seen by the BIOS would seem to indicate that the drive is good, it just doesn't have a boot sector.

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