2022-06-18 Update
Medicat installer works fine but you still need to deactivate Defender before running.
Once Medicat USB is created do not insert into an active system without disabling virus protection.
It is tempting to use a huge USB with Medicat and add a bunch of useful things but you can not plug Medicat into an active system because of some of the hack files so 64GB is good enough. 32GB is too small to add Windows install files.
With the new installer most of what I said below is obsolete.
***Caution
If you stick MediCat into a working Windows OS to edit or play around, be sure to deactivate real time protection or antivirus will delete some of the files. This is too many files for just whitelisting and not worth the time.
Ventoy Method
Had to boot in legacy for mini-Windows to work. This PC's BIOS gave me the option for legacy or UEFI on the boot menu. Bottom line is use Ventoy for simplicity unless using over 32G drive and wanting add more ISO files.
*Ventoy Method
Medicat is easier than it looks to install on a USB stick.
. Most tutorials are in foreign language.
. . I don't yet know how to add additional ISO files to the drive or update the menu.
. . . Medicat has more than you will probably ever need anyway.
... Choose the torrent download
Download the current Ventoy and prepare a flash drive choosing the GPT partition option and the Secure Boot option. I think GPT is for booting UEFI. It booted the the Windows ISO fine with legacy BIOS for me.
The Medicat you downloaded will have a number of zip folders.
, Open zip-1 in 7zip and extract to the large Ventoy partition.
, , 7zip will automatically extract all of the zip folders in order.
. . . Be sure to have real time protection off.
. . . . Yes it will take for ever.
This method for E2B might be worth a try. E2B is awesome at booting on various machines.
*E2B Method
Don't' worry when you can't find "\pecmdExt.ini" file to copy. It's not there.
Remember to always run Make Drive Contiguous after adding anything. It's in root E2B.
Remember
..Working on MediCat (but not booting to) in standard Windows you need to disable real time protection.
..Then unzip and work with MediCat.
..Might as well delete the unzip if turning on protection because it will remove some MediCat files.
..Your ISO files in E2B benefit from having the *,isodef extension in E2B and not *.iso
.. If you can't see an ISO it may be that you did not run MakeDriveContiguous
When using a large drive and planning on adding other ISO files E2B is the way to go. MediCat will take up much of a 32G drive without adding anything so forget adding a Win10 install to a Ventoy MediCat on a 32G drive.
Secure Boot
. . .I hate it and forgot to turn it of on my Acer Predator laptop. It was grayed out. What the heck. I set a BIOS password and was able to turn secure boot off. Then I removed the password. Enter the password you set and hit enter on the blank new slots to have no password.
Can't Access Boot Menu
. . .Try holding shift key down when shutting down Windows before restart.
Added Bonus
Portable Apps Section
If you access this within your Windows system (real time turned off) and you
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