Grandsons Toshiba Sattellite Laptop will not boot up

[sphinxy]

My Grandson recently dropped his laptop but it was still working but for the last few days it as stopped booting up on the screen it as a error message PXE-M0F Existing PXE ROM.
Operating System not found

anyone have any info on this problem

Thanks in advance

[ChuckFickens]

He's knackered the hard drive!

Your best bet would be to buy a new hard drive and re-install it from the recovery media you either got, or created, when you first got it.

[ChuckFickens]

OH, but do remove the hard drive and re-fit it just in case it's just dislodged the connection to it..

(it will be under a panel on the bottom)

[sphinxy]

Cheers Chuck
it's as i thought i have removed the hard drive and put it back to no avail would i have to purchase the exact same hard drive or is it possible to fit any internal HDD in the machine bearing in my the connections and the prices of HDD's

[ChuckFickens]

as it's a fairly new latop it will have a SATA hard drive, so pretty much any SATA 2.5 inch hard drive should be fine...

Reinstalling it is another matter! if you have the recovery discs it's easy, if not a call to Toshiba may be in order, they might supply the recovery media (for a small price) but if not you either need to find install media that matches the COA sticker or start from scratch and buy windows again..

[sphinxy]

Thanks again Chuck