NOTE: A new version of Ghost Solution Suite is available. Please view the information available at Ghost.com The new Ghost Standard Tools 3.0 boot disk creator supersedes this document. By default, the Norton Ghost program is set to create a boot disc using a rewritable CD or DVD. It may be significantly more convenient to save the recovery information to another type of media, however, such as a USB memory drive. Norton Ghost version 15 gives you the option to create boot information on any.
MediCat DVD is a bootable troubleshooting environment that ships with Linux and Windows boot environments, and troubleshooting tools.
The author of MediCat DVD designed the bootable toolkit as an unofficial successor to the popular Hiren's Boot CD boot environment.
Hiren's Boot Cd has last been updated in 2012, and while it works in many cases, at least some of the software it ships with is outdated and may not work properly anymore on newer versions of Windows.
It is still mighty useful, as it allows you to edit the Windows Registry without booting the system, reset Windows passwords, and do other things without booting into the operating system.
MediCat DVD
MediCat DVD comes in four different flavors; that's confusing at first, especially since you don't get good descriptions of the four options.
- MediCat DVD -- This is the name giving distribution. It includes the PortableApps Suite, Linux boot environments and a full working mini Windows 10 WinPE Boot Environment.
- MediaCat DVD Naked -- Like MediCat DVD, but without the PortableApps Suite.
- Mini Windows 10 x64 -- Windows 10 WinPE Boot Environment, and PortableApps Suite.
- Mini Windows 10 x64 Naked -- Like the one above, but without the PortableApps Suite.
The main distribution, MediCat DVD as a size of 7.5 Gigabytes currently. The naked variant a size of 5.05 GB, the Windows 10 x64 distribution one of 3.94 GB, and the naked Windows 10 distribution one of 1.47 Gigabyte.
Downloads are provided as multiple archive files. You need to extract the files once you have downloaded them all using 7-Zip or a compatible archiving program. This places an ISO image on your disk that you can burn, copy to USB to create a bootable USB drive, or boot using a virtual environment.
The main menu displays various options to you. You can start one of the bootable operating systems included with the distribution, or access diagnostic, repair and troubleshooting tools instead that MediCat ships with.
The menu lists the following options in this regard:
- 64-Bit windows Recovery: Choice of Microsoft or Easy Recovery options for Windows 10, Windows 8.1 and Windows 7.
- Hard Disk Tools: includes currently Acronis TrueImage 2017, GParted, Norton Ghost 11.5, Paragon Hard Disk Manager, PloP Boot Manager, SpinRite, SuperGrubDisk, Darik's Boot and Nuke.
- Diagnostic Utilities: includes currently Hardware Detection Tool Memtest86+, TestDisk / PhotoRec / LiliPad, Ultimate Boot Cd.
- Scan for Viruses: this launches Comodo Rescue Disk currently only.
- Remove User Account Passwords: Active Password Changer, Daossoft Windows Password Rescuer, Offline NT Password & Registry Editor, PCUnlocker, Boot Kon-Boot CD.
You may boot in any of the available operating systems. If you pick Windows 10 for instance, you get the following screen once the operating system is booted.
You get to access all sorts of programs right there, and even more if you are using a version of the toolkit that came with PortableApps included. This include many tools that help you troubleshoot issues on a PC; to name a few: EaseUS Partition Master, HDDExpert, NTFS Permissions Tool, backup tools, Dead Pixel tester, CPU-Z, RegAlyzer, Dr.Web CureIt, Kaspersky TDSSKiller, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, and Autoruns.
The author updates the ISO images every six months following new releases of Lubuntu. If you copy the bootable toolkit to USB, you may update PortableApps manually, and even add other tools that you require to it.
Closing Words
MediCat DVD has a lot to offer. You get four different versions and can pick the one that you want to use. If you are unsure, I suggest you pick one that includes the PortableApps suite, as it adds several tools to the troubleshooting environment that you can make good use of.
The downside is the fairly large download, and that you have to use a program like Rufus to create a bootable USB drive.
This tutorial will show you how to create a bootable Norton Ghost USB. Norton Ghost is a disk image creator tool useful for image back ups and multi-cloning.
To accomplish this you would need 2 files:
a. Format USB Tool.
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b. USBOOT Norton Ghost.
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Place the folders in a convenient location where you can easily access them (Desktop).
1. Once downloaded and extracted, open the Format USB Folder, then right click the Format USB Tool.exe and select “Run as administrator“, it might prompt you to input an admin password.
2. After running the Format USB tool select: the USB under device, Under file system select: FAT32, check format device, also check create a DOS start up disk and select from the browser the USB Norton Ghost Boot folder :
3. A warning pop up will come up letting you know that all data will be deleted from the USB by continuing, so when you are ready click yes when prompted to do so.:
4. When done click ok.
5. Now copy all the content from the Boot Norton Ghost folder into the USB drive without the Boot folder, like the image:
6. In case you copied the the Boot folder just delete it from the flash drive.
7. Now You’ve got a bootable Norton Ghost USB.