Official MediCat USB - A Multiboot Linux USB for PC Repair

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Hello! great tool, I installed version 18.04 and when starting mini windows 10 I get an error loading winload.exe, with version 17.10.02 I do not have that error,
I've tried it on other PCs and in all of them get the same, how can I fix it? many thanks!!
That was the exact same issue I was experiencing when using the full MediCAT USB image in VirtualBox.
 

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What is the difference between Medicat usb and Mini windows 10 x64 ?

It says they both have portable apps but one is nearly twice the size.
 

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HI!! it seems a long time ago since people stopped commenting, but i want to notice something.
First, thank you very much for your incredible tool, i think is the perfect heir for hirens boot, and much more if i can say...

Second, i want to notice that my current antivirus detect lots of viruses when im using YUMI and descompressing the tool (i think are false positives but thats not the problem), and i want to ask you if the antivirus can make some problems to the installation on the USB. I think it doesn't because YUMI is able to finish the work, but i wanted to say so.

Third, is there any tool that doesn't work anymore? Im asking because when i try to run Pc unlocker from the medicat terminal, i get a blue screen of ERROR, but when i run it from mini win 10, i don't get it. Im glad it worked there, but from terminal could get some extra speed at working.

I hope you can read the post, and sorry if i gave you some problems!
 

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So, I guess there's no solution at the moment, right?
If you're getting that error, I would try the Mini Windows 10 standalone ISO booted from UEFI mode, and see if that works out better for you. Apologies for the late reply, I'm not receiving all my notifications for some reason.

What is the difference between Medicat usb and Mini windows 10 x64 ?

It says they both have portable apps but one is nearly twice the size.
The chart on page 1 shows you the differences between them, but I'll be adding to it for a better explanation. So thank you for inquiring.

Basically, the Full USB gives you a menu system with MANY bootable tools, AND Mini Windows 10 is included (+PortableApps). The other ISO is Mini Windows 10 by itself (+PortableApps).


HI!! it seems a long time ago since people stopped commenting, but i want to notice something.
First, thank you very much for your incredible tool, i think is the perfect heir for hirens boot, and much more if i can say...

Second, i want to notice that my current antivirus detect lots of viruses when im using YUMI and descompressing the tool (i think are false positives but thats not the problem), and i want to ask you if the antivirus can make some problems to the installation on the USB. I think it doesn't because YUMI is able to finish the work, but i wanted to say so.

Third, is there any tool that doesn't work anymore? Im asking because when i try to run Pc unlocker from the medicat terminal, i get a blue screen of ERROR, but when i run it from mini win 10, i don't get it. Im glad it worked there, but from terminal could get some extra speed at working.

I hope you can read the post, and sorry if i gave you some problems!
I recommend disabling ALL real-time monitoring antivirus software in the USB creation, so no files get removed in the process and you end up with a 100% 1:1 ISO to USB copy.
 
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So I threw together a cheap and dirty "Nano Windows 7" 32-bit Win7PE ISO hovering around 40MB in size! WOW! It has absolutely nothing installed on it (but has 7zip). There isn't any networking support, so don't ask. It's strictly for things like a single app, or to boot into and move files around. Just literally the smallest Win7PE I could make, for anyone that needs a super slim and lightweight Win7PE to work with. This will not be included on MediCat, nor will it ever be updated. But the download link will always remain.

Download link: HERE


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Hello,

English is not my mother language so I'll try my best.

I'm a new user of MediCat,
Thank you Jayro for bringing us this useful tool.

I have only one question :
It works well with my VirtualCD Zalman ZM-VE500 but I made my USB Key with Rufus 3.3
and on any computer, It is "Partition 1" which contains Mini Windows 10 who starts.

What I have to do for boot on MediCat ? (tried remove Secure boot, enable Legacy)
 

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Hello,

English is not my mother language so I'll try my best.

I'm a new user of MediCat,
Thank you Jayro for bringing us this useful tool.

I have only one question :
It works well with my VirtualCD Zalman ZM-VE500 but I made my USB Key with Rufus 3.3
and on any computer, It is "Partition 1" which contains Mini Windows 10 who starts.

What I have to do for boot on MediCat ? (tried remove Secure boot, enable Legacy)
Thanks for your kind words. I would try to hit F10 or F12 during boot, to manually choose the USB to boot from.
 
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Thanks for your kind words. I would try to hit F10 or F12 during boot, to manually choose the USB to boot from.

I've already tried this.

If I hit F12 for One-time boot, I have 2 options in UEFI :
Windows Boot Manager and
UEFI: KingstonDataTraveler 3.0, Partition 1

If I remove Secure Boot and enable Legacy, it adds :
Internal HDD
USB Storage Device and
Onboard NIC

UEFI:... Partition 1 loads Mini W10 as I said and
Legacy USB Storage Device doesn't work

:(
 

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MediCat v18.10 is released!


I chose to honor the 36th birthday of the Commodore 64 home computer with this release. It was my first computer afterall, and the C64 Mini released earlier this year as well.

As per the usual, the changes are located in the changelog, within the download links on page 1.​


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Hi Jayro,

Thanks for sharing the new version and for your continued work on this :yay:

I downloaded medicat.v18.10.stable.NAKED and the file is bad! the hash for the files medicat.v18.10.stable.NAKED.7z.001 and .7z.002 matches what you have on the file hashes.txt but when I try to extract the ISO file it fails because of bad CRC!

Edit: mini.windows.10.NAKED.7z is also corrupt the hash is the same but 7-zip or WinRAR can't extract!

Can you please check this on your end?

Thanks.
 
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Looks like the Stable version for both Gdrive and Mega are giving me issues downloaded them both and then When extracting is when you get the issue Checksum Error File Corrupt
 

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And this is why I stopped uploading the ISOs in chunks... I'll try to reupload them again tonight.

Not a problem it happens to the best of us Thank you for all you do and If you would like any help on this project of want any donations to help I would be more than glad to help
 

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Not a problem it happens to the best of us Thank you for all you do and If you would like any help on this project of want any donations to help I would be more than glad to help
It's just frustrating because my upload speed is trash, (10Mbits/s) and I don't understand where the corruption is coming from. So having to reupload everything is difficult. And thank you for the offer to help. I mostly need to find a way to boot into UEFI, and chainload into the Syslinux menu. That's what's stopping me from making a UEFI MediCat version.
 

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Hello Jayro,

Was the torrent option removed. The first page mentions that there is a torrent, but I cannot seem to find it. I have used the other options in the past, however it is so easy to reach that bandwidth threshold for Mega, and it is just a pain in the ass to have to wait 6 hours to resume the download that is just below the halfway point. I would also like to thank you for a fine replacement for Hiren's BD. Glad to see after 4 years the project lives on :D

With Appreciation
 
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Hello Jayro,

Was the torrent option removed. The first page mentions that there is a torrent, but I cannot seem to find it. I have used the other options in the past, however it is so easy to reach that bandwidth threshold for Mega, and it is just a pain in the ass to have to wait 6 hours to resume the download that is just below the halfway point. I would also like to thank you for a fine replacement for Hiren's BD. Glad to see after 4 years the project lives on :D

With Appreciation
I assume the torrent option will be made available eventually, after the MEGA and GD links are fixed.
Currently jayro is reuploading it, so please wait some time.
 

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Hello Jayro,

Was the torrent option removed. The first page mentions that there is a torrent, but I cannot seem to find it. I have used the other options in the past, however it is so easy to reach that bandwidth threshold for Mega, and it is just a pain in the ass to have to wait 6 hours to resume the download that is just below the halfway point. I would also like to thank you for a fine replacement for Hiren's BD. Glad to see after 4 years the project lives on :D

With Appreciation
The torrent option will be back when I can find out how to properly seed my torrents. And thank you, I'll keep supporting this project for many years to come.
 

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The torrent option will be back when I can find out how to properly seed my torrents. And thank you, I'll keep supporting this project for many years to come.

Thank you for the quick reply not used to that with most forums :lol:. Take as much time as you need to get them all working the way you want. I am sure most here are willing to be patient, Cheers.
 
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