Macbook Air Freeze Booting White Screen Spinning Rainbow Circle - HELP

Hi All,
To begin with this happened to a macbook air which has not been turn on for around a year. This is Macbook Air Mid 2011 version.
After plugging in to charger and power on, the boot up after the grey apple logo stuck on the white screen with spinning rainbow circle, like below:
I Did Option + Power on , and the result is like below screen:
After enabling the Wifi connection and choosing the Recovery HD, resulted back to white screen with spinning rainbow circle.
I wonder why there is no Macintosh HD partition like many have mentioned in other threads??
I Did another type of Booting and after enabling the Wifi connection, still resulted Apple Support 5005F like screen below:
I tried googling to find what is 5005F and how to fix that, but can not find anything related to 5005F.
Please kindly help me to Fix and bring back this Macbook Air back online and working.
Thank you Thank you Thank you...

If you have booted into single user mode and ran "FSCK", and it will not repair, then it sounds like your hard drive is gone.
You will likely need to replace the hard drive.
Repair coverage? - Check your Service and Support Coverage - https://selfsolve.apple.com/agreementWarrantyDynamic.do. This will also show the make and model of the device.

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