Official MediCat USB - A Multiboot Linux USB for PC Repair

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New Ventoy update 1.0.28 is out.
Sweet, I'mma take a peek!

UPDATE: Hardly looks like anything worth updating... Tighter DRM bullshit, and a few more ISOs supported... WOOHOO..? :unsure:
 
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It's a long thread, so I apologize if this has already been answered and I missed it.
I have iODD which supports ISOs. I have previous medicat ISO on it, but iODD doesn't support img.
Where can I download the latest ISO?
I also tried to mount the img and it says it's corrupt. Trying to covert it to ISO didn't work either.

I have the iODD 2541, and I have followed the instruction in the Virtual USB Guide, released by iODD. It tells you how to take a .IMG file and create a virtual USB Drive using the iODD VHD Tool and Rufus. This work perfectly for me. You mount the Virtual Hard Drive in the same way you would mount an .ISO file on the iODD. The benefit of the Virtual Drive is that it is writable, same a standard Hard Drive or USB Flash drive would be, unlike an .ISO file.
 

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I'd suggest to compress the .img file first to distrubte
I shrink the partitions before I make the image, and then I use 7-zip to compress it further. So it's already as small as it can get for a fully-loaded "all-in-one" PC repair USB stick.

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I have the iODD 2541, and I have followed the instruction in the Virtual USB Guide, released by iODD. It tells you how to take a .IMG file and create a virtual USB Drive using the iODD VHD Tool and Rufus. This work perfectly for me. You mount the Virtual Hard Drive in the same way you would mount an .ISO file on the iODD. The benefit of the Virtual Drive is that it is writable, same a standard Hard Drive or USB Flash drive would be, unlike an .ISO file.
That's dope. Got a link to that iODD guide? I have the iODD 2531, and love it to pieces. Threw a 500GB SSD in it, and haven't looked back.
 

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I have a ISO image of Acronis Director 12.5 on WinPE created from my own PC. If you need, I can upload this copy to you.
Is slightly faster and easier to use compare to EASEUS.
 

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I have a ISO image of Acronis Director 12.5 on WinPE created from my own PC. If you need, I can upload this copy to you.
Is slightly faster and easier to use compare to EASEUS.
I just added it actually, but thanks anyway. (I had to edit the boot.wim to skip bootapp.exe, and open DiskGenius.exe directly, and now it works perfectly.)
 

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I cannot figure out how to install this i downloaded the parts and i have7z installed but what is the process to extract the 0001.002.003.004.005? I get an error every time what i am i doing wrong?
 

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I cannot figure out how to install this i downloaded the parts and i have7z installed but what is the process to extract the 0001.002.003.004.005? I get an error every time what i am i doing wrong?
Check out the previous page (127) Jayro explains how to extract the files and what the files should look like before extracting. Hope this helps you.
 
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I cannot figure out how to install this i downloaded the parts and i have7z installed but what is the process to extract the 0001.002.003.004.005? I get an error every time what i am i doing wrong?
After you download all of the numbered files, use 7-zip to extract 001 only. 7-zip will extract the entire .img file out of all of them seamlessly for you.
 
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Hey guys. Ok, maybe this is a dumb questions but I used ofsmount to mount the image so I can make changes to the Ventoy partition in explorer but there is only 2.04GB free of 26.3GB and the Windows ISOs I want to drop would put that over limit. The USB drive I will be using is 128GB so how do I rectify this problem on the Ventoy partiiton end?
 

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Hey guys. Ok, maybe this is a dumb questions but I used ofsmount to mount the image so I can make changes to the Ventoy partition in explorer but there is only 2.04GB free of 26.3GB and the Windows ISOs I want to drop would put that over limit. The USB drive I will be using is 128GB so how do I rectify this problem on the Ventoy partiiton end?
 

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Hey guys. Ok, maybe this is a dumb questions but I used ofsmount to mount the image so I can make changes to the Ventoy partition in explorer but there is only 2.04GB free of 26.3GB and the Windows ISOs I want to drop would put that over limit. The USB drive I will be using is 128GB so how do I rectify this problem on the Ventoy partiiton end?
 

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Hey guys. Ok, maybe this is a dumb questions but I used ofsmount to mount the image so I can make changes to the Ventoy partition in explorer but there is only 2.04GB free of 26.3GB and the Windows ISOs I want to drop would put that over limit. The USB drive I will be using is 128GB so how do I rectify this problem on the Ventoy partiiton end?

in first page there is a tutorial: Spoiler: how to resize the partitions
 
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Hi.

In the first place, thank you for this great project. It's absolutely amazing.

So, I've a question. I've downloaded the MediCat v20.10.1 today, through Torrent. I think is easier. But, now when I try to start the Mini Windows 10, i'm getting an error message in the Windows Boot Manager:

Windows failed to start, in file \windows\system32\boot\winload.efi
Status: 0xc0000225

I've checked the SHA1 checksum and it's correct.

Any help?
 

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Hi.

In the first place, thank you for this great project. It's absolutely amazing.

So, I've a question. I've downloaded the MediCat v20.10.1 today, through Torrent. I think is easier. But, now when I try to start the Mini Windows 10, i'm getting an error message in the Windows Boot Manager:

Windows failed to start, in file \windows\system32\boot\winload.efi
Status: 0xc0000225

I've checked the SHA1 checksum and it's correct.

Any help?
Try creating the USB again making sure to turn off your antivirus whilst you are creating the USB.
 

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Try creating the USB again making sure to turn off your antivirus whilst you are creating the USB.

No. It wasn't this. I was able to boot [UEFI]_Mini_Windows_10.iso with the VirtualBox. So, it wasn't corrupted.

My setup is a Dell Vostro 3470 - UEFI Mode - Secure Mode Off. USB Flash Eaget 128GB 3.0.

Someone, have tried to boot the [UEFI]_Mini_Windows_10.iso in this new version?

@Jayro can you take a look?
 

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So I finally made my USB and tried it out with QEMU. It's awesome and I wanted to say thank you. Only odd thing I noticed is at the bottom left it says "unofficial ventoy" and was wondering why? I did mod it to my liking but was just curious about this. Thanks in advance!
 

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