LOL oh man , that sucks . Imagine the smell . It takes a special person to work on the type of cleanup crew that would deal with something like this . Pretty much a biohazard situation . <| sep |> Filthy FrankI Hate Everything <| sep |> I think uDarthCorleone is right . That laptop is toast . Had one just this month that ONE SCREW mount broken , which caused the hinge to come loose . Just that was enough to be more than the laptop was worth to fix . Your best bet is to bring it to a momandpop shop , let them know you just need a working laptop and the data off the old . They might give you credit on the old one if it ' s fairly new and help with the bill a little bit . If you ' re super lucky , they ' ll have a replacement laptop on site and you can walk out with one that day . The other option is to just buy a new laptop , pull the hard drive from that one and use it as an external drive .