Dropped my '97 Gateway Solo laptop

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I dropped my Gateway Solo Laptop (Windows 98se) and now it will power
up but it won't show anything on the monitor - I mean it is black. I
don't mind buying a new laptop but there are files I would like to
salvage. Has anyone else had this happen? Any ideas?

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TV Slug wrote:
> "camp6001" <camp6001@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:1114048035.159705.77630@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> > I dropped my Gateway Solo Laptop (Windows 98se) and now it will
power
> > up but it won't show anything on the monitor - I mean it is black.
I
> > don't mind buying a new laptop but there are files I would like to
> > salvage. Has anyone else had this happen? Any ideas?
> >
>
> If you mainly use it at home, just buy a cheap external monitor.
>
> If you are just going to replace it, borrow a friend's monitor when
you need
> to see to transfer files to the new machine.

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Thanks. By the way, we tried hooking it up to an external monitor with
no success.

If I take the hard drive out, what next?

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"camp6001" <camp6001@aol.com> wrote in news:1114049688.828961.216820
@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

> Thanks. By the way, we tried hooking it up to an external monitor with
> no success.
>
> If I take the hard drive out, what next?

head to the computer shop and buy an external case for your laptop drive
(or borrow one).... you throw your drive in there, then hook-up the case to
another computer via USB 2.0 or Firewire, and access it like a removable
hard-drive.