chances are the ac socket is soldered onto the motherboard, or an stip of connections, if you are handy with a screwdriver and soldering iron then you could change it yourself, maplins may be able to provide a connection.
PC world offer the TECH GUYS who can back up your hard drive, alternativly look for the 2.5 IDE to USB connections on the internet and then you could run the laptop hard drive (after removing the bottom pannels and switch 2 cables) as an external drive on your other pc, leaving you to back up your work and use the harddrive again for storage later. You could then even place the hard drive in an external box for future (http://www.xpcgear.com/notebookideusb.html)
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Jonathan Pugh
April 2008
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