Data recovery from a laptop with a broken screen! Solved

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Hello,

I don't know if I'm in the right section...

So, my brother's laptop screen is broken; we can only see a tiny corner of the screen, which is really a hassle. Otherwise, the rest is not damaged.
So, before replacing it, he wants to recover his data.

Looking around online, I understood that you can connect the laptop to another computer to recover the data (we have a living room computer with a monitor).

However, I'm not very tech-savvy (and I wouldn't want to mess things up), what cable exactly should I get and where should I plug it in on the laptop?
Or is that not at all what I should do... if that's the case, could you explain the procedure to me (um… with not too complicated terms, please lol)?

Thank you.

tsuyo21 · Accepted Answer

1: connect the PC to the TV or an external monitor via VGA or HDMI...
copy the data to an external hard drive or removable storage device

or

2: as indicated above: open the hatch under the PC, remove the hard drive and mount it in an external enclosure

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Virfuoz · Answer

Otherwise, just remove the hard drive from your PC and put it in your new laptop; if your PC breaks down and isn't too old, I don't think there will be any compatibility issues ^^ There you go.

Anonymous user · Answer

Hello,
Um, removing the hard drive, I admit it scares me a bit… yes, it's silly but I don't know, I'm afraid of making mistakes, well I think I can still look into that.

First, I'm going to try connecting it to my monitor (from my living room computer, that's what you're talking about, right tsuyo21?).
And when you say "vga or hdmi", are you talking about a cable that's connected to my living room computer? How can I identify which one it is?

Thank you

Anonymous user · Answer

Help!!!
Something abnormal has happened!!!

I unplugged the VGA cable from the central unit (the living room computer) while keeping the other end connected to the monitor, and I plugged it into the VGA port of the laptop. So far, so good.
I did this with everything turned off.

Then I turn on the laptop and the central unit to power on the living room computer and suddenly, the screen of the living room computer is black (even the power button of the screen is not lit...).
I wait a bit, thinking that I’ll probably need to switch the portable screen to the other one, but when I go to "display settings" that shows screens 1 and 2, it tells me that screen 2 is inactive :O And when I try to switch it, my laptop screen goes black!!!

I immediately unplugged and replugged the VGA cable to the central unit to return everything to normal. The laptop works, but now it's the living room computer's screen that doesn't work anymore, not even its power button!!!

HELP!! What should I do??

Data recovery from a laptop with a broken screen!

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