Connect laptops together without special extras?

I have a laptop where the display and the keyboard unfortunately no longer work, the rest of it already… Now I wanted to ask if you could connect my healthy laptop with the broken one to e.g. B. Easy and straightforward to pull the data onto the new laptop?

Both laptops are the same model HP Elitebook 840

And if it doesn't work without any aids, what do I need to connect my laptops or have a screen transfer?

Connect to the TV with HDMI cable. A keyboard is not so important to save data, a USB stick, mouse and then it should work

Simply exchange the data via a USB stick. To do this, connect the monitor / television and keyboard. Should be the easiest. Otherwise you can of course also connect the hard drive of the defective computer to the laptop with a healthy display and use it to save the data on a stick.

If you only care about the data, you could remove the hard drive and connect it to the other laptop with an adapter and read it out. If the hard drive is not encrypted, you can then access the data as well as a USB stick.

You can connect two laptops e.g. Via LAN cable. However, in order to be able to access the data in this way, it would first have to be released in the settings.

You could also connect a keyboard via USB and an external monitor to replace the functions of the broken components with the external devices.

No. That's not how it works. You can connect an external display, possibly an external keyboard and then drag all data onto a stick.

Yikes, I forgot a very important point, I think… On my broken laptop, it has TrueCrypt on it and without entering a password I can't get far and an external keyboard doesn't recognize it… That's why I thought that it would be easier if the healing somehow worked would… And to be honest I'm too stupid to connect a hard drive somewhere: x… But thanks in advance for your answer!

Hello first of all for your answer. My hard drive is unfortunately encrypted with TrueCrypt and somehow it doesn't recognize an external keyboard. I had already tried that at the beginning. And to be honest, I didn't like to expand hard drives…

And to be honest I'm too stupid to connect a hard drive somewhere

I can't imagine. There are only two cables and you can only plug them in properly. You should definitely try.

I don't even know how to get the laptop open or what the hard drive is. I'm a little afraid that I somehow fumbled my perfect laptop. But thanks a lot for your help

The hardware tinkering is of course a bit stupid, otherwise you could have played "make 2 out of 1". However, I don't know how far TrueCryp responds to it, but if you swap the keyboard and Disply it shouldn't do anything. Do you have any friends or acquaintances who would dare to do this?

So, as I said, he unfortunately does not accept a USB keyboard at all, but not in the BIOS if I have to enter my TrueCrypt password… Changing the keyboard from the laptop would be so much money again, had to buy a new laptop. And no, unfortunately not. I had heard about it when it was freshly broken. But also many thanks to you for your answer.