Using BCDedit on an external drive

Recently, the screen on my HP laptop with 7 Ultimate broke, I have been using an external monitor.  A few weeks later, the DVD player has stopped working so I decided to start in safe mode to try to diagnose the problem.  As the screen is broken and I couldn't see the boot options, I went into MSConfig and selected safeboot under the Startup tab.  Now, I get no video to my external monitor with the VGA or S-Video ports, so I can not go to start Windows normally.

My question is: is it possible to change the options to start if I get out my HD and connect it to another computer with a SATA to USB connection?

Hello

If it connects to another computer, you can read and write to external, as you can do it to any other computer.

However, I don't think that this boot option can be edited HD when it is not the real startup disk.

I think also that not being able to see the video could be a problem with the hardware configuration (maybe the function keys) of the laptop and not a question of t Bootedi.

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