Remove an image of HDD from a laptop with a non-working screen?

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Denai2013-07-30 14:06:35

*nix-like systems

Denai, 2013-07-30 14:06:35

Actually, the problem has already been solved in a rather stupid way, I would like to know the optimal path, which they did not see.
There is an ideapad s400u laptop with Win8 installed, an unknown number and size of partitions on it ~ 500GB (not critical). The laptop has no display (broken). There is a desire to remove disk images from it in the optimal time and send it in for repair (you can’t disassemble it).
The solution was found:
we connected a monitor (hdmi), realized that without a loaded OS with firewood, something was displayed on it, blinded a bootable USB flash drive with ubuntu, copied some Disks to an external hard drive, which was found in the list of installed software. Booting from a flash drive was enabled by duplicating actions from a similar laptop. The utility, by the way, copied the sections directly, which is very long.
How could it be done faster and easier?

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merlin-vrn, 2013-07-30
@Denai

No serial port?

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LAA, 2013-07-30
@LAA

And it seems to me that you acted correctly, albeit slowly, but the result was achieved.
It's good that such a laptop was at hand.

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Alexey, 2013-07-31
@WildHorn

I did not quite understand, you had a working Windows, and only the screen did not work? Why didn't you try the Win+P keyboard shortcut? It works without any drivers and settings.

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Nazar Mokrinsky, 2013-07-30
@nazarpc

Find a VGA monitor, it often even displays BIOS initialization. It might help to disable the display cable so that the external monitor is the only one (but not sure).
The easiest option is a USB-case for HDD, connect it as a USB-HDD to any computer.

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Nikolai Vasilchuk, 2013-07-30
@Anonym

What does "can't parse" mean? Replacing the memory / disk does not affect the warranty in any way, and you, it seems, do not have a warranty case.

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xandr0s, 2013-08-01
@xandr0s

Not quite “easier”, but I used the scheme several times: on a virtualbox I launch a boot disk and on a laptop without a screen (blindly). Further, using Tab, Shift-Tab, Space and Enter (as well as other convenient hotkeys), I move in parallel on a virtual machine and a live machine. You can take images with an acronis, for example.