Without disassembling the computer, you cannot. Go to a computer repairman, and ask him if he can get files off it, or make it turn on.
You cannot tell. You would need to turn it on.
Remove your HDD from your broken PC. Then put it into a good and working desktop PC with the same HDD connections. Boot the computer to that drive and copy your files to either an external hard drive, a portable hard drive, or a flash drive (if you have one big enough.) After the transfer is done, copy the files to wherever you may want them. It's also possible to leave your old hard drive in the computer you are using to transfer these files, or reformat your HDD so you can have extra storage in that PC:)
Turn off your computer! Restart it and transfer all files to a portable hard drive! That's all I know
Any files that you have on your computer get wiped and you have to setup your computer all over again. Don't do it I did and I had to reload everything
Option 1: There should be a monitor port on the back of the laptop. It's a blue plug. Take a monitor from a desktop computer and plug it into the blue port on the laptop. Then turn your laptop on. You will be able to see your laptop screen on the desktop monitor. Then save your files to a CD or flash drive. Option 2: If you don't have a blue monitor port on the laptop you will need to pull the hard drive out of the laptop and buy a hard drive 2.5" (Either SATA or IDE) to USB adapter then you can plug the hard drive into another computer and read the files, copy them, etc.. This option should be carried out by a technically savy person or computer tech.
There are two different ways to turn your laptop off. For you, the best method would probably be to hit the power button on your laptop rather than to hit the shut down option in your start menu. Unless there is an update or you need to sync files to a server, there is no real need for the complete shutdown. When you turn your laptop on again, everything you previously had open should still be there.
FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. They are not really files, but a way that you upload files to a server for website content. An FTP software uploads specific files to a hosting server and public HTML folder which puts them on a server, which in turn makes them go live on the actual URL/domain of the website.
turn it off, then turn it ON... idiot
my laptop is turned on but my screen won't work.
No
do your own research
This is not possible. The speed of the USB controller is based on its complex chipset, which cannot be feasibly replaced. If you want USB 2.0 ports on your laptop, you will need to purchase a PC Card with a USB hub.