While I'm not 100% sure that this will avoid the nasty "illegal" battery warnings from the Lenovo battery utility, I believe it should. Jon, you mihgt want to give this a go on your dead unit, just to see if it's worthwhile (I may do so on one of mine).
Cheers/2
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Lewis
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