Gary - ignore what it sez about the battery; try to run it off the plug. In the worse case you can pull the hard drive (probably an ssd) and put it in a new machine; as long as you don't reset it and it isn't solder in
If the battery is a removable type i'd remove it and run it off the plug.
I know what you mean. When I lived in Florida I has a Honda Civic 2ith ~307,000 miles. Finally got rid of it when the entire brake system went out as it would have cost more to totally replace the brakes than the car was worth.
Totally remove power from the laptop including the battery. Hit the power button a few times to discharge capacitors and then restore power and try it. Not saying that this will work but, when I had my computer business, I could not say how many systems I fixed with this little trick.
Not all laptops will run without a battery installed even if the battery is dead the A/C power brick is still routed through the battery.
Honda is pretty close to the only car i'll drive; love the way they hug the road; mazda is a close 2nd (mazda 3); great car but the center isle is a bad fit for my legs. I had a 95 acura integra (civic with a nice body); So i went 20 years without a car when i lived in the city and then test drove 20 different cars over 2 years when i knew i would be leaving; i dont' remember them all but i know my dad ended up with an rx7 (which i hated); i was deeply disappointed by toyta models (tried 3 - i think - most were small cars - i think the camery was the largest of all the cars i test drove); one thing i was deeply disappointed in was the base model civic had an electronic clutch for the stick shift; you had to get the high end model to get a real clutch - and that electronic clutch had no feedback so you couldn't tell when it was in gear. Worse than no clutch. Mazda 3 had the traditional mechnical clutch great fun car. Anyway i had to move a 40 gallon aquaruim 1500 miles and it wouldn't fit in the civic so i ended up with the accord. Kind of large car - one of these days i'll downsize to a civic. Of course the headache is even the civic had gotten a bit on the large size; being able to make those tight turns et all can be helpful
There were a few american cars i test drove but i have this thing about reliability - i want the car to last 20 years and only need an oil change; most of the better american cars are large cars or trucks and well making that sharp turn in a 50 ton truck doens't work well.
remove hard drive. buy adapter from amazon, use as external hard drive on your new computer or desktop
I was going to share the Napoleon Dynamite quote, but I think I already did. That's good eating size! But you must be turning into quite a fisherman if you can catch fish on somebody's lawn!
Yes, I believe you did
yeah, it's a pretty nice size!!
Lolll. It's a small pond in our town by a business. My brother has a class and I pass time there by fishing (asked to make sure it was ok).
Also, I love your shirt.
This may or may not be possible. If it is a mechanical spin drive almost assured that it could be used as an external. However, if an SSD, it is likely just chips mounted on the motherboard and cannot be removed to use as an external. It is sort of a 50/50 thing as to if an SSD is soldered to the motherboard or in a socket. If in a socket, no issue.
All of this can be easily answered if Gary provides the computer model #. I already mentioned the ssd might be solder in (almost all chrome books have ssd; life is unbearable with mechanical drives - esp lap top drives which are slow as a turtle on land - (hint anyone with an ancient laptop and mechanical drive). Sadly most of the newer chrome books are solder but if he has an old model then it likely is not solder in.This may or may not be possible. If it is a mechanical spin drive almost assured that it could be used as an external. However, if an SSD, it is likely just chips mounted on the motherboard and cannot be removed to use as an external. It is sort of a 50/50 thing as to if an SSD is soldered to the motherboard or in a socket. If in a socket, no issue.
@GaryE : Did you try removing all power, including the battery, and hitting the power button a few times to discharge all the capacitors and then restore power? Sometimes this is easier said than done. For instance both my Mac-book air and Microsoft Surface have batteries that would need the case opened to disconnect the battery. What removing all power does is a true reset of the system as when plugged in or with the battery the thing is never truly off.
From how you described the failure I doubt that the hard drive is actually dead so the advice from @Alice B is totally valid to check out as, if the drive is removable, you can recover the file you were working on at the time.
Has this system ever been dropped, especially if recently? Again this depends on if there are sockets for the memory that can be accessed through a panel on the bottom or if it is hardwired. If accessible through a bottom panel make sure the memory (RAM) cards are properly set in place. Easiest way to make sure the cards are set properly is to remove and seat again. I remember getting so mad at a client when I had my computer business as she denied the laptop ever being dropped yet I could see the dent in the corner from the drop. Opened the bottom panel for the memory and sure enough the drop had knocked loose both memory cards. Re-seated and the system was fine. LOL! I really wondered about some clients as they wanted me to fix the system but would lie as to what happened. When it came to viruses and malware I know some of the lies were due to embarrassment as tracing the infection would lead to a porn site as the cause but, still, if you want someone to fix something correctly you have to be honest. I mean, if you called a plumber to fix a leak in your kitchen, would you tell them the problem was in the bathroom??? Sorry for the 'mini-rant' but some clients REALLY ticked me off and your issue brought back memories. I don't, in ANY way, to imply that you are not totally honest as to your issue; just brought back memories.
Mostly agree but spin drives are not always all that bad. I have two laptops; one retired but still viable with a 1 TB spin drive and another that is a Dell with a spin drive on which I run Linux Mint. Both systems have 2.5 inch drives spinning at 7200 RPM and perform well. Shoot, while my main system, surface and Mac Book use an SSD for the system drive... Actually my main uses a 1 TB M.2 PCIe as the system drive ... the systems that use spin drives really don't suffer. Sure the boot time is a bit longer but once up and running all is fine as to access.
Anyway the thing worked and testers could not cause an error. May sound strange but I didn't write this OS for profit but the thought just caught my attention and I decided to do it and did it. 
