Satellite c670 black screen

I have a Satellite c670 that's a year and half old. I just used it and slammed the lid shut..not that hard but hard enough that when I opened it back up there was a dreaded black screen, no curser ..nothing. When I shut the lid I was transferring photos to my laptop, so that's the only thing that was in my computer at the time a 8gb memory card. Nothing was in the cd drive. I was plugged in to the wall. I got it to the point where I'm at the windows boot manager screen and it's keeps saying:
Windows has encountered a problem communicating with a device connected to your computer. This error can be caused by unplugging a removable storage device such as an external USB drive while the device is in use, or by faulty hardware such as a hard drive or CD-ROM drive that is failing. Make sure any removable storage is properly connected and the restart your computer.
If you continue to receive this error message, contact the hardware manufacturer.
status: Oxc00000e9
Info: an unexpected I/O error has occurred.
I have tried everything to make this work. I made sure the hard drive was in tightly (it was). I check the memory and that was in tight and I also checked the CD-ROM and that was in securely. I have tried turning it off with out the battery, I turned it on and off with the ESC button. I have tried everything that I can and now I'm looking for major help. I have everything on my computer for university and no I haven't back it up in a long while...booo to me! Someone please help!!!! Thanks

remove the sd card and anything else connected to the laptop. do a power reset. remove battery and unplug the charger, then hold down the start button for 10 sec. reinstall battery and connect charger. start up computer and spam (continuously hit) the f8 key. if lucky, you will be presented with the option to boot into safe mode. select and let it boot up. when done, do a normal shutdown. then, try to do a nornal boot up. post back results.
L305-S5955, T9300 Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB RAM, 60GB SSD, Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit

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