Laptop keyboard broken, can someone

I have an HP EliteBook, which I do not know exactly…

So now my friend has run water on the laptop and the keyboard is sometimes no longer.

The whole problem is that I would like to pull my photos on an external hard drive before I have to enter 2 passwords (truecrypt and Windows) which I can't enter so naturally…

The USB keyboard is only recognized in the BIOS and even there with the USB legacy setting I can't get on…

Is there still some possibility?

Would appreciate any kindly advice

PS am not a specialist please without technical language 😛

I would first wait (max a few days), if everything calmed down again.

Basically, you can replace the keyboard, often there are also low-priced variants of third-party manufacturers (just googling).

You could also remove the hard drive and connect to another computer (possibly with an adapter SATA → USB) and copy the data, all you need is the TrueCrypt password.

… And why do not you have a current backup? At any time, such a mishap can happen, even any PC or hard disk can irreparably "die off" without warning.

I'm not a specialist, either - but I know it's about rice 😁

It is recommended at least for mobile phones and the like if they come in contact with liquids. Whether the small grains of rice for a laptop are healthy, I do not know.

Although this does not answer your question and is also dangerous Halbwissen but maybe it is something helpful ♀️

Could that be real that keys that are not working now will be back in a few days? And that you could save the hard drive calms me down a lot… I usually pull my pictures over regularly but this time I have things that are now really important to me in retrospect…

Could that be real that keys that are not working now will be back in a few days?

If everything dries nicely, it could be.

Thank you for your advice, if that is so good for a laptop, I honestly do not know, but it had also made 😂lag so overnight in the rice and down to the keyboard, he makes a pretty fit impression (even if I only up to my Truecrypt password), so maybe it has brought something.

😂👍

The lord of me is right, two days should be something like that, so maybe give your Lappy another night in the rice

Under Windows there's also a virtual keyboard, because look for start menu after "on-screen keyboard"

Thank you first for your answer, but I can open the on-screen keyboard only after my Truecrypt password and accordingly too late.

You, I have a question if that's ok and that would work a PS2 keyboard with adapter without driver installation?

Ps2 keyboard, I can't say that, I do not know if this is a standard keyboard - just try it, you can't go wrong there.

But you can actually plug in any standard keyboard via USB, that should work, standard keyboards do not require special drivers, which are automatically included by Windows.