Question:The power socket on my laptop has broken, my laptop battery  has died, and I can't turn on my laptop. Before I get the power socket repaired, I need to take off personal files off of my laptop. Since I can't even turn it on, I am wondering if I can remove the hard drive and gain access to its files through my old PC. Is this possible? I have heard of external USB hard drive cases, but will that work to hook my laptop hard drive to my PC without using my laptop at all?

  Answer:If you buy an external drive case, make sure you get one new  Latitude D800  battery that will work with the drive from your laptop..they're different(smaller and different connectors) than standard desktop drives.

Might be cheaper to buy an adapter..like the one here...