Toshiba laptop will not boot up

Hello.
A couple days ago my younger brother (in a fit of rage on a video game he was playing on the laptop) slammed the laptop shut and tossed it on his bed. I took the laptop and tried turning it on and got nothing. I have reached a screen where it asked to either "Start windows normally" or with Windows repair and choosing to Start windows normally will only give me a black screen for a few seconds and then start over again asking me which option to choose. I have tried choosing the other option and all I got was a black screen with my cursor and nothing more. I have tried many solutions online and so far none of them have worked. A friend of mine told me to "revert the system settings" but I couldn't figure out how to do that. The laptop screen was already cracked from previous encounters with my younger brother and we use an external moniter. I tried resetting my laptop to factory settings by reading somewhere to hold 0 (zero) when I turn the laptop on until it beeps but I got this message:
Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 083)
Copyright (C) Intel Corporation
For Atheros PCIE Ethernet Controller v2.0.2.7(11/02/10)
Check cable connection!
PXE-MOF: Exiting Intel PXE ROM.
No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key.
I have no idea what any of that means but I do not have a disk for my laptop. Any help would be greatly appreciated guys!!

It sounds like it doesn't see the hard drive. It's possible that the drive was disconnected. Many models have a small door on the bottom that you can remove to access the hard drive. You may want to check that it's connected securely. If you don't know what you're looking for, try doing a Google Image search of a laptop hard drive.
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