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Gateway MT6452, battery dieing is killing my hard drive? help!?

hey, i have recent problems with my gateway MT6452, which i bought a little more than a year ago first off is that it has trouble reading my battery i think, or at least charging it, it just decides to run off wall jack power with a low battery. i can get it to start charging if i take out the battery and put it back in, but after sometime, it goes back to just running off of the wall jack with a low charged battery not being charged. because of this i always have to have it plugged in, and can barely use it portable. im not sure what the problem is. secondly, i have to really wiggle the plug in the back of the laptop to even get it to read. this is probably a hardware issue, and im not sure i can get it fixed, but i can deal with it thirdly, and this part is really bad and not helped at all by the first two. for some strange reason, recently if i let my computer's batter die, so that it shuts off, it wont start up anymore when i turn it on. the first gateway screen starts up and the little bar at the bottom loads up to about 80 percent. i think this is the part where its supposed to read my hard drive. i really dont know why having the battery running out would cause the hard drive to not be read, but this is what it seems like is happening. it just wont start up anymore. this has happend to me several times, and i even bought a new hard drive for it thinking that was the problem. but it has happened to both hard drive several times. i've got it working again a couple times, but both times im not sure how i got it working again. one after a couple days it just started working again, and a second time i hooked up my hard drive to another computer externally and when i put it back in my laptop, i got a "this computer was not turned off properly" screen on my laptop and it let me once again start up. but recently my batter died while i was using the laptop and now it just wont start up. does anyone know what could possibly be the problem? im not sure what to do

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1. Ok discharge your battery to 0 and then recharge to 100. Do this 3 times. this should calibrate your system with your battery. If this doesn't work you can just take the battery off and use the laptop as a desktop but your best bet is to buy a new battery because it sounds like that battery has major problems.