If you have an VGA output you should be able to plug that into a monitor and just use the keyboard hotkeys to toggle from the LCD to the external monitor. Even if that doesn't work, provided the drive is not dead, you can pull the drive from the dead laptop and install it in an external USB chassis (note that you will need one compatible with laptop hard drives) and plug it into any USB equipped computer to back up your data.
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Date: 2008-06-03 18:11 (UTC)