Official MediCat USB - A Multiboot Linux USB for PC Repair

BitComet has a portable edition: http://www.bitcomet.com/en/archive

 

@Jayro I'm wondering if you could add the anti virus tools from "MediCat Second Opinion" onto the main medicat version?

 

Thats fair lol, I guess I can always just copy the iso's over to mine from the second opinion copy right? the icons and that should transfer too?

 

JAYRO,
Medicat 20.11. I have just downloaded it and installed it on my USB key according to the new protocol. (For compatibility reasons with my devices, I formatted it in FAT32).
The result is beautiful. The work was colossal. Thank you very much for your contribution. Thanks to you, we have transportable OSes and very efficient tools for computer maintenance. Thank you.

 

Just notice the Acronis Disk Director v12.5 is not a English version.

 

Is there any reason not to use exFAT when using a regular flash usb drive for Medicat? For instance, is there some kinda limitation of the exFAT filesystem that would cause some booting issue with something on the USB drive or its utilities?

I ask simply because exFAT limits writes to flash usb drives when compared to NTFS, and can actually improve drive life.

 

Notice that and actually I try out both way.
Believe this is due to 32K cluster size (by default) on exFAT vs 4K size on NTFS. With a 32G drive, (in my case, I add a few ISO files) my files actually fit nicely on NTFS partition (with about 100+M left. But it would not fit on the same drive using exFAT format.

Think there is too many small files taking up the space.

 

Strange, i tested this on my 64GB SanDisk drive with both exFAT and NTFS partitions and both times everything seemed to be working.

I believe that you can't boot on some old bios systems while using exFAT due to older BIOS limitations though. So I switched to NTFS following the default instructions with a clean Ventoy install and all is good.

 

Hello, I've been using Medicat for a few days for work, but I cannot make MediaCreationTool work!
Everything else seems to work just fine, but MediaCreationTool just freezes the computer for a while and then does nothing...
I'd like to use it to reinstall Windows 10 on my clients PCs, and also for diagnosis.
Is there any known issues with this? Thank you !

 

Hello Jayro,

This is a very nice work, thank you for your all effort.

I have some questions

1- I have recently discovered your multiboot Recovery USB and before that I was using Easy2Boot with my iso files on my HDD. Most of them worked with your USB too but I could not boot "Elementary OS 5.1" Linux iso and I got security fail on UEFI Secure boot.

Could you please advise me a solution or alternative Linux distribution?

2- On your USB I could not find any Linux Live iso. Depending on my search on the net there should be "Lubuntu Linux" on the previous releases if I am not wrong.

Does it still exist?

3- I want to change the keyboard layout language to Turkish on your Mini Windows 10 (WinPE) but I could not find a permanent solution on the settings after booted or editing the iso file before booting.

I made a bat file with code below; it is working manually after booting but I would prefer a permanent solution before booting.

Could you please tell me how can I do it?

"
@Echo off
Wpeutil SetKeyboardLayout 041f:0000041f
exit
"

4- I want to use my Bluetooth Mouse on your Mini Windows 10 (WinPE) but I could not manage to activate Bluetooth nor install my driver for Bluetooth on your Mini Windows 10 (WinPE).

Is there any way?

Thank you again

 

Not a aproblem. I use my own copy but is a iso image instead of wim.

 

Hello Jayro ! This set of tools is fantastic. Version 20.11 works like a charm and its far far better then version one before 20.0x which after updated Ventoy made my pen-drive unbootable. Now need more tests but so far i tested:
WinPE10_8_Sergei_Strelec_x86_x64_2020.09.21_English works fine,
Linux puppy 9.5 works fine.
More tests coming soon.
Keep good work !
Kast0r