Copy Drive Image From Headless Computer

[Stewart Berman]

Windows XP Pro SP2

I have a machine that no longer sees the on board video chip. It will boot up but not display
anything.

I can open system management on another machine an connect to the one with the bad video. Is there
anyway to copy an image an entire drive from the machine with the bad video card to another machine?

It would have to be entirely controlled from the second machine (the one with a working video
system).

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[Anna]

Windows XP Pro SP2

I have a machine that no longer sees the on board video chip. It will
boot up but not display
anything.

I can open system management on another machine an connect to the one with
the bad video. Is there
anyway to copy an image an entire drive from the machine with the bad
video card to another machine?

It would have to be entirely controlled from the second machine (the one
with a working video
system).

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Stewart:
When you say the "machine...will boot up but not display anything."...

What exactly do you mean? Are you saying the power is obviously on and you
can hear noises in the machine as it "boots up" but all you get is a black
screen? Is that what you mean?

If so, is that what you mean when you say the "machine no longer sees the on
board video chip."?

Would there be any advantage in your current situation where you would
simply uninstall the HDD from that problem machine and install the drive as
a secondary HDD in the machine with "a working video system".? Then
(hopefully) you could access the contents of that HDD for whatever reason(s)
you may have. Naturally we're assuming that HDD is non-defective, right? And
it contains an uncorrupted OS, right? You've no reason to suspect you may be
dealing with a problem HDD, right?

What about this idea?...

If it truly is the onboard graphics display that's the problem (and I have
to say I'm a bit skeptical about that Stewart - but maybe so), how about
installing a graphics/video card in the machine? Might that be a
consideration that would solve your problem?
Anna

 

[Andrew E.]

Why would one want to....Either way,it can be done,you may need another hd
installed to the the bad chip pc.Set 2nd hd as slave to C: on same IDE cable,
format the hd in xp,once thru,go to run,type:XCOPY C:\*.* D:\ /c/h/e/k/r
Agree to all in the DOS window.Also,D: being slave hd,if asigned diffrent
letter
then use that letter instead...Also,this mirrors C: to slave,thier may be a
way to
perform diffrent functions (pc to pc)etc,type:XCOPY /? in cmd