Satellite A305 problem: "No bootable device" error after dropping unit

I'm hoping someone can help me out here. Last night, I went to set my A305 laptop down on the coffee table. During the motion, my dog, which I was stepping over, jumped up and took off which almost knocked me over. When this happened, I lost my grip on the computer and dropped it onto the coffee table at a height of about 2-3 feet. It was in standby mode so I pressed the button to wake it back up to see if I damaged it. The Internet Explorer session I was previously in pulled up, but nothing would happen when I clicked on any browser buttons or links. I shut down the computer and upon restarting, I got the black screen with "TOSHIBA" in red, as usual, and then I got a black screen with this error message: For Realtek RTL8101E/8102E PCI-E Ethernet Controller v1.07 (080320)PXE-E61: Media Test Failure, check cablePXE-M0F: Exiting PXE ROMNo bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key I couldn't get it to do anything else at all, even after several shut down attempts. Does anyone know what could be causing this to happen? Is it a hard drive malfunction as a result from the drop? The unit had worked perfectly for a little over a year up until this point. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Possible, yes.  Can you do it at home, no.  Due to the clearances involved you need to do this in a special clean room as the slightest piece of dust or debri that is normally floating around in the air would ruin the platters that the data is stored on.  If the drive won't work you'll need to send it to a professional data recovery service to have them do it and the cost of something like that starts at about a grand and goes up depending on the specifics. But before we go there you need to determine if the problem is for sure the hard drive.  Enter the bios and check to see if it is even being recognized or not.  Also, take the hard drive out and boot to a self booting CD/DVD like a Linux Live CD to verify that the rest of the system is working properly.  If it isn't, then the problem might not be the hard drive itself (although the chances of that are about the same as winning the lottery).  If the laptop had been off there is a good chance that it would have survived and still worked.  But anytime a rotating hard drive sustains any sort of impact shock the chances of it sustaining damage are about 98%.

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