Tech Support Forum - View Single Post - Need to get files off a laptop with a broken screen

**johnwill** · 07-03-2009, 07:04 PM

Well, normally the laptop hard disk is pretty easy to remove, unless it's a Sony.

Why can't you login remotely using the user account name/password that has full access?

Did you consider simply connecting an external monitor to the machine? Almost every laptop on the planet has provisions for an external monitor, and you normally just toggle it using a function key sequence.

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