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  • Background information: I take my laptop to three classes in one day every week where I don't have access to a power socket to charge my laptop, but I have an extra laptop battery fully charged in my backpack. Also, my laptop is Thinkpad T510 Windows 10.

  • Question: Is there any way to replace my almost dying laptop's battery with my fully charged one without facing any shutdown? (Assume no power socket and power cord is available to use).

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You could fabricate a power source based on a "power bank" to feed power in via the normal charging port but that would mean more things to carry.

It may be easier to do a shutdown saving all the docs etc and just change the batteries over.

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  • I see yeah a power bank might not be a bad idea, that's a good one.
    – Agent 0
    Jan 7, 2018 at 9:44
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Even if you had a power socket available, according to this discussion it seems not clear if all models support hot plugging.

Without any clever hardware addition, which would provide interim power, I believe using hibernate mode (not sleep mode) is the way to go, it is supposed to persist all state on your drive. See here #3 how to add it to your power menu.

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  • Cool, I will give that a try soon. If that works for me, its a game changer. Thanks.
    – Agent 0
    Jan 7, 2018 at 9:46

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