Laptop pops up "no bootable device please insert boot disk"

[Pcgamerrtx]

Its a Toshiba Satellite laptop, when turned on it pops up the message saying “no bootable device please insert disk”, i went into the bios and its detecting the hdd, but keeps getting that message, the laptop had a fall some time ago so i thought it could have damaged something, so i opened the laptop from the back and extracted the hard drive itself to inspect any physical damage which i didnt see at least from a general view, but then what i saw was a missing flex cable connector where the disc drive unit goes, the flex cable is loose and not connected due to the missing conector, thought it might have something to do with all this, but dont really know for sure, so wanted to ask this out here, i marked with a red circle in the image indicating the conector im mentioning that is missing

The image is from a video i saw on youtube of a toshiba laptop with the same motherboard and arquitecture as mine

[Bruce]

it’s only a guess, with the available info, but that lose cable would probably be for the front buttons where that cable is, so audio or mouse trackpad or whatever is on the front molding right there.

but, if that is the only lose cable, and you have tried the hard drive in another device to verify it is readable and the data is recoverable, then putting 2 and 2 together, would indicate that broken cable is somehow related.

[PeterOz]

I can’t see the pic
Please attach using the attach file butto at the bottom of where you type.

[Bruce]

and it would help to take a shot of your actual unit, zoomed in on that broken cable region. (y)

[Bruce]

@Pcgamerrtx - any news?

[Bruce]

abandoned.