So would I use KaMyKaSii's method to backup the drive to an image, and this dd command to flash it back?This was not my question. I know of plenty of software that can flash disk images, but your image is incompatible with all of them. I suspected this was because of the .bin format, but as KaMyKaSii found out, it's because of ImageUSB (which seems to be designed to render the images it produces incompatible with other softwares).
Anyway, I managed to flash the image under Linux thanks to KaMyKaSii. From the testing I've done, the quickest way to get a working image is by running this command (compatible with all Linux distros, as dd is preinstalled everywhere afaik):
Maybe you could add it to the original post for Linux and Mac users to have a way to burn Medicat. =)Code:sudo dd status=progress ibs=512 skip=1 obs=4096 if=/path/to/medicat.20.06.bin of=/dev/sdX
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If you can positively identify the problematic driver's, I'll remove them going forward.Hi Jayro, really appreciate the work. I got a hold of your distros a couple months back in Jan. At that time it was 19.10 at that latest. Just saw the transition to the Linux and that the whole distro is only available as one, even the mini winpe which I think quite a few others perhaps might also think needs to be separated or needs a separate version of itself. As much as I do like a linux version of medicat, it's not the first thing that I work with, being comfortable with windows not to mention that I could also help others fix some issue with the winpe version over teamviewer or some other means of communications (this is also due to the interface more or less, not everyone is as tech savvy as you, generally speaking. And since others are more familiar with windows it helps them understand medicat more easily in the winpe edition. And I know for sure if I used this current huge ass full linux distro, their minds will be blown out). Although it's not much of an issue, I have lots of space and bandwidth and pretty sure I can find a way to extract it without using imgusb (don't have a current usb with that much space, so haha)
That's not why I came here for though. Last time when I used winpe v.19.10 my network drivers were having a slight malfunction. On some deep digging found out that it was the default MS drivers that were either corrupt or just malfunctioning, and I had to do some more digging extract the esd, search the drivers, remove the faulty drivers and repack it up. I don't exactly remember now, but I think it had 2 different drivers for internet. I think one was for win7 and another for win8/10 and for some reason the session was loading the older drivers and which is what was making it not work. Not just that, even if I installed the correct drivers over it my network card wouldn't work, side effects from the faulty drivers. (I am not sure which was corrupt but I do remember I found 2 drivers for the network)
I'll see if it's the same with the current winpe and might have to fix it again, if so I'll point out the exact drivers which are giving the issue. At least in my case.
Also, a slight suggestion. As much as I like the idea of winpe, it would be a little more productive if there was ever a way to keep a session alive even after reboot. Once you reboot the session is gone, so you can't use drivers which need a restart (I could not also check if the side effects of that faulty drivers would go once restarted, and because I couldn't restart I only had a way to either update on the faulty ones or remove and then reinstall, which during both times tells me to reboot)
I know it's a longshot way and not sure if it's even possible, might have to look around and see on theoven site.
EDIT: What I meant with the keeping sessions alive after a reboot, was like how a live windows on usb works. And I know it's hard to have it live without having to install it normally or make a vhd. But it would be convenient if you could switch back and forth through it, from a live to a portable edition and vice versa. Or perhaps there might be a way to save it as some sort of a session in some temp folder on the usb, again if that's something that seems possible.