 Here I have my sister-in-law's laptop, which is damaged down here by the hinge of the screen that's cracked, and it's causing the touchscreen to go crazy. What's happening is it's just pulling the cursor down to the bottom right side of the screen. It makes doing pretty much anything impossible because it's not just pulling the cursor down there, but it's constantly wiggling around and clicking. You're unable to do anything, even if you try to use the keyboard, it's constantly clicking down in that bottom right corner. My goal is to get her files that she has on here off the hard drive. Obviously, I can just pull the hard drive out, put it in an external hard drive enclosure, and back the files up, or even just keep it on that hard drive and have her keep that as a backup, but I want to see about using this computer, making it usable, and getting the files off without having to pull out the hard drive. Unfortunately, she's running Windows 8, I believe, here, and there's no way for me to disable the touchscreen that I can find, at least not easily. There is a button on the keyboard to disable the mouse pad, but that doesn't disable the touchscreen, and I can't get into the system settings to disable it, and I am unaware of any way to get into a text-based mode that doesn't use the cursor that allows me to disable that feature, at least not in Windows, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to boot into Linux off a flash drive and see what I can accomplish. First thing I need to do is shut down this computer, and of course I can't use the mouse, so I'm going to try to, I could just power it off, but I'm going to try to shut down properly, so I hit control-alt-delete and I'm going to try to click sign out, there we go, so I'm at least able to sign out here, and now I'm at the log-on screen, which is going crazy, can I swipe that up and maybe click the power button down here? No, that's not working at all. I may have to just power it down, let me try control-alt-delete from here, nothing, so yeah I'm just going to power it down by holding down the power button. This multi-boot USB drive that I've created that has a few different versions of Linux on it, and so I'm going to plug that in. Let's probably know most laptops you power on, press a certain F key or delete or escape to get to a boot menu, but this is a idea pad by Lenovo, and they actually have a button on the side that you press that brings you up your boot options, so you just tap that rather than trying to figure out what key to press. So here I'm going to choose my boot menu, and again I'm going to choose my USB drive, and here I'm going to just choose a Linux Mint XFCE 64 bit, and we'll give that a moment to boot. Okay, the desktop is booting here, we're having the same issue with the mouse cursor down there, clicking on our calendar app, and this is one of those things that you probably know of, but there's, and you may wonder, there's many uses for this, but on most Linux distributions, if you press control-alt and one of your F keys, one, two, three, four, five, and so forth, you'll get yourself a nice little console, so I'm going to press control-alt F1, and here I am at a shell, and I'm good to go at this point. I can now plug in an external DVD drive, because there's no DVD drive on here, and I can back stuff up to a DVD, external hard drive, flash drive, or even connect the internet and start backing up files that way, all from the shell. And so here we go, we're good to go right here, and again just I'll plug in another, you know, flash drive and mount it, and just copy the files over. So now you may say, how are we going to make this machine usable other than from the shell, because if I press control-alt F8 in this case, it brings it back to desktop, and I'm still having that same problem. Well, in the next video we're going to look at just changing a simple config file that will disable the touchscreen on that system when you're inside XORG, but I just wanted to give a demonstration of that, of what I've done so far. Pretty simple. I mean, didn't have to do anything special, just boot Linux, control F1 or F2, and go ahead and just start using the shell to copy files over and back them up. Be sure to check out the next video on this playlist, where we'll go a little more in-depth on how to get this touchscreen disabled. So I thank you for watching. As always, visit filmsbychrist.com, that's Chris the K, there should be a link in the description, and as always, have a great day. 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