Satellite L855-149 - "no booting device. Please restart system"

Hello!
Recently I have been getting an error on my computer; driver iqle not less or equal. This errors was happening maybe once ever 2 weeks. Yesterday however it started to happen every hour then the second it restarted from the last it crashed again.
Eventually windows did not start correctly and it came up with a recovery menu. I tried everything except the hard drive wipe as it has stuff I need. After a restore of the system everything worked but then it crashed again. This time when I started it it went to a black screen and then white letters reading checking media, checking media[fail] and then No booting device. Please restart system.
I looked it up but every video and post is a different error like no bootable device found. Insert disk and press any key. So now, before I lug it to PC world and get ripped of 200 to get told they could not fix it, I come to you guys. Please help me! Your my only hope! (A* for that Star Wars reference lol)
I will attach some photos to help you!! Thanks!
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Hi
Generally speaking the error Media Check Fail appears always if the BIOS cannot find the bootable device.
In my opinion different basic scenarios are possible:
First of all its possible that your HDD died and therefore notebook cannot find the system
But this looks strange to because in case of HDD problems, the BIOS would switch to another bootable device like ODD or LAN.
Therefore a general motherboard problem (for example faulty controller??) could be also possible.
To be honest, its always difficult to provide right and final diagnosis without checking the hardware first.
Anyway, in my personal opinion you should check if new HDD and new OS installation would solve your problem.
Of course you could try to boot the notebook using an bootable LiveCD disk just to check if you could boot the notebook without an new OS installation.

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