Phil Lock 0 Newbie Poster

My Acer Travelmate laptop will partially power-up (power light illuminates but no monitor or external monitor display) but will not boot. I am within the warranty period so I plan on mailing my laptop back to Acer to repair. BUT, before I do so I would like to remove all the data from the internal hard drive and place it on my external hard drive. First, is this possible? If so, how should I do it.
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