Re: Access a hard disk from a DELL from a laptop

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/18/2013 9:09 AM, Vidal, Peter wrote:
> I have a DELL Desktop from a friend (with its keyboard, no monitor). 
> I also have my own laptop.  My goal is to back up the personal data, 
> ether in my external drive or DVDs.  The connections that we have in 
> the desktop do not include HDMIs, but it does have USB ports.  There 
> is a VGA connection, so I turned on the desktop and tried to connect 
> it to my laptop via a VGA cable I have but I was not able to see the 
> hard drive from the desktop.

Video connectors don't provide access to the machine.

> I have not tried to use a LAN cable yet.  At the end, I tried to
> connect the desktop to my TV because I also have a VGA port on it;
> however, it was not working either.  I am not sure if that video card
> is working properly ...

If the only objective is to get personal data off the desktop, I would suggest removing the hard drive from the machine and getting a USB / SATA adapter and use that to connect the hard drive to the laptop.

david