Hey guys,

I got a dell labtop a few years ago and used it for a long time.

I had surgery last year for my stomach, and thus i was bed ridden for about 3 weeks. While i was in my bed, i set up my labtop next to me on a tv dinner trey thing. One night though i was going through a rough phase and i hit my labtop in my sleep. I woke up and to my dismay, the place that you plug in the labtop to give it battery was all wiggaly (sp?) and the labtop said i was running on battery. My battery sucked and it died in less then 5 minutes. I opened it up and found out that the place you plug the cord into is attatched to a circuit board, but that little piece was broken clean off.

On that labtop i had alot of information. I had alot of stuff about my truck and alot of home movies and like 3 gig of music that i would love to have back again. There is no way i can fix the circuit board because the stupid tech people in my town dont know how to, so im lost. I was thinking maybe you could buy a new battery or something but that would be really dumb for a one time use thing.

So my question is, is there anyway to pull information off of a computer that has no battery? I have a jump drive and another computer of course. I will go to the tech shop tomorrow and see what they say, but i would like to hear all of your opinions first.

Thanks in advance.