Windows 10: My computer won't start after a “Reboot and Select proper Boot device" message showing up...

Hey,

Sorry if this isn't a right place to post this but I've been desperately searching for some help, so I though maybe someone here could know.

I started my computer and this message shows. “Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key".
I tried to do the usual - clean around the computer, insert and re-insert the RAM, played with the booting order, unhooked and re-hooked all the cables to see if anything could be loose and even changed a CMOS battery, but nothing really seemed to help so I'm wondering if I'm missing something or if I might have went wrong somewhere.

Not sure if this really means that my HDD might have some virus or is corrupted for some other reason but if I remember correctly, this has happened already once but then after several restart attempts the computer started to work normally. I haven't used the computer for at about a month, since I was working a lot but now this message has appeared. I remember installing some Windows 10 update just before this happened so I'm not sure if that had to do something with it?

Anyway, any ideas how to fix it or at least how I can prevent loosing any of the valuable data from the HDD and SDDs would be really appreciated!

Link to the photos for a reference : https://imgur.com/a/eWKUsBo

Any tips on how to solve this would be appreciated!

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