My computer has been dropped on its side and is currently giving

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open bios, see if the drive is detected

not op but i also have a question so ill ask it in here. i'm a poorfag and i have an old laptop (+10 years) and recently i leave it running with the battery now the battery won't charge at all and the system icon says that it cannot read the battery status and also there's the battery red light that keeps tilting every second. is there any risk if i leave it like that?

If it was dropped while running, the force probably destroyed the hard drive. If the hard drive is not detected in the bios, you'll need a new one. The mobo may make some beeping sounds.

>>160130
you should be able to remove the battery and use it like a desktop computer. unplug it from the outlet, remove battery, then plug the power back in. it's no longer portable this way, and power outages won't be fun, but that may not be a problem for you

obviously the other option is to replace the battery, but you said that you're a poorfag so ye!

>>160156
also forgot to mention, shutdown before pulling out the battery lol

>>160130
No, there's no danger. If it can't read the battery, it won't try to charge it.

>>160159
>>160156
You can do all that, but it's not necessary.

>>160087
>>160085
If you're lucky, the hard disk has fallen out of its connector.

But it's way more likely it's headcrashed, and can't read the firmware it needs to bring the SATA link up.

Modern hard disks have a low-level bootloader that can run the platter; when you boot, the bootloader spins the disk up and loads the rest of the disk's firmware off it.

This means that when modern drives have damaged platters, they don't even appear as a disk.