Battery problems after data recovery efforts

[abogin]

Tried to recover my Mac iBook hard drive and immediately after battery is not working properly (as if battery is missing). Has anyone experienced this previously?

[CK]

What exactly did you do to "recover" your hard drive? Did you remove it? Have you removed the battery and re-seated it?

[abogin]

hard drive was taken out and put back. could anything happened during this process?

[shaun]

Of course. The more you had to disassemble, the higher the chances you've destroyed something.
Especially since you are asking as if you'd better not disassembled a computer...

[lcoughey]

It could just be coincidence. Swap out the battery with one that you know that works. If you get the same result, you know it is the system, not the battery.

[poehere]

This is a very common problem here on the islands. If your current is not stable this can happen quite often to laptop and batteries. I had one in that was working fine. AFter a few hours the system died. I had to pull the battery to get it to boot up again. Here I am not sure in other places this is quite common. I have a practice now with all laptop when using power to fix them with that I pull the battery before working. Normally for me I do not keep the battery on my laptop when using the power source to work with. If I need to use the laptop without the power source I charge the battery and replace it and then work with it this way.

Here I see that people buy laptop and keep them plugged into the power source all the time when using them. Then when the battery is needed on a power outage the battery does not work anylonger.

[Doomer]

Battery in laptops should work fine 1-2 years. After that it's better to be replaced
If your battery is newer than 1 year - something is wrong otherwise you battery just died as many many others

[youngmiki13]

I had a similar problem before. It turns out that the batter was just "worn out." Try replacing the battery.