Satellite C855D-S5303 No Bootable Device

I'm working on a Toshiba Satellite C855D-S5303 that fails to boot into Windows 8 and instead, gives a message on the screen, "No bootable device -- please restart system." I searched the forums and read a lot of posts regarding this issue and it seems that it's pretty common.
The HDD is detected in the BIOS as well as in the hard drive checking programs found on the latest Hirens cd. I ran Seagate Seatools long test yesterday afternoon before leaving work and returned to find that the Seatools testing screen was still up but nothing was happening. Nothing was "clickable" on the screen so I had no option but to do a hard shut down. I restarted Seatools but it behaved the same way. After doing that, I decided to try to recover the owner's files. When I connected it to my other computer and looked at the drive, there wasn't an operating system on the drive anywhere. In fact, all that was listed on the drive was what is pictured in the attached screenshot.
Seems like whatever wiped out the drive also took out the operating system too. All that's pictured in the screenshot are "hidden". I've never seen a "DONOTPRESENT" type of file either. I'm pretty certain the drive is bad in spite of it being seen by various programs. I'm wondering if anyone has any thoughts on the missing operating system, the remaining hidden files found, and the donotpresent files.
Thanks for reading.
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Satellite C855D-S5303
Best to restore the hard disk to its original out-of-the-box contents using Toshiba recovery media. You can obtain that from Toshiba. Scroll down to Get Recovery Media here
For instructions, see the section Restoring from recovery media, which begins on p. 57 of the User's Guide.
Satellite/Satellite Pro C800/L800/S800 Series User’s Guide
-Jerry

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