Need data transfer help

[danielisthor]

My wife's laptop monitor died. She's planning on just getting a new instead of fixing her old one. Is there a way to extract the files and data from her laptop hard drive onto an external hard drive?

 

[Drakon]

Most laptops I've seen also have a monitor hookup...

 

[Kane52630]

yea look on her laptop for a VGA, DVI, or HDMI port