Rating: 
Summary: System Commander has serious RAM problems
Review: I attempted to use this product for a dual boot of Windows ME and Windows XP (RC2). It did not work.I thought that since XP was in beta SC2000 couldn't support it yet (despite claims on v-com's web site), so I set up a dual boot of Windows ME and RedHat Linux 7.1. It did not work. I sent two emails to their tech support. The response (in broken english) was "that right. does not work with..." I would have been better off flushing the ... down the ... (I could have saved four hours)
Rating:
Summary: Lots of promises--little performance
Review: I attempted to use this product for a dual boot of Windows ME and Windows XP (RC2). It did not work. I thought that since XP was in beta SC2000 couldn't support it yet (despite claims on v-com's web site), so I set up a dual boot of Windows ME and RedHat Linux 7.1. It did not work. I sent two emails to their tech support. The response (in broken english) was "that right. does not work with..." I would have been better off flushing the ... down the ... (I could have saved four hours)
Rating:
Summary: System Commander has serious RAM problems
Review: I own the System Commander 2000 version and it is not all its cracked up to be. When partitions grow too large the software can't resize the partitions. I have tried to resize partitions greater than 3.5 GB only to have the software tell me it needs more RAM. I have added more RAM, now I have 768 MB and the problem still persists. The problem isn't a need for RAM but in the software's proper access of RAM. VCOM knows about the problem but has quietly hidden it. They readily admit the problem still exists in the new version, SC7, but are doing nothing for customers who own previous version to my knowledge. My advice don't buy this product until they have fixed the RAM error in their product.
Rating:
Summary: It was a disaster for me!
Review: I really goofed when I bought this product! On my two-drive system, the OS Wizard crashed while trying to analyze my setup and I had to turn off the power. When I called VCOM about this, I was put on hold for an hour. It turns out they have only four support techs, and two of them had called in sick that Friday. Yeah, great... At least, the woman I finally spoke to was knowledgeable. First we tried to get OS Wizard to work by specifying dlimit2 (I also have a RW CD drive that she thought might be causing the problem). No luck. So she walked me through the partitioning utility on the floppy disk (avoiding OS wizard). But before I could ask her if I could multiboot without the OS Wizard, I was summarily disconnected. I did try using the partitioning utilities. It took an hour and a half to resize a 30 GB partition with 3.5 GB of data to 6 GB. But when I tried to add another partition, the Create Partition option was permanently grayed out. So I had accomplished the ridiculous feat of reducing a perfectly good 30 GB drive to 6 GB! On top of this, there was an error message informing me that io.sys was missing or bad and instructing me to reinsert the VCOM boot floppy. This suggested that the resizing had in fact *not* been done correctly. At this point there was nothing left to do but curse System Commander and reformat the drive. Later, I did achieve multibooting (Win2000, Win95b, LINUX) using a completely different utility, PartitionMagic5.01 from PowerQuest, and I heartily recommend that product.
Rating:
Summary: It was a disaster for me!
Review: I really goofed when I bought this product! On my two-drive system, the OS Wizard crashed while trying to analyze my setup and I had to turn off the power. When I called VCOM about this, I was put on hold for an hour. It turns out they have only four support techs, and two of them had called in sick that Friday. Yeah, great... At least, the woman I finally spoke to was knowledgeable. First we tried to get OS Wizard to work by specifying dlimit2 (I also have a RW CD drive that she thought might be causing the problem). No luck. So she walked me through the partitioning utility on the floppy disk (avoiding OS wizard). But before I could ask her if I could multiboot without the OS Wizard, I was summarily disconnected. I did try using the partitioning utilities. It took an hour and a half to resize a 30 GB partition with 3.5 GB of data to 6 GB. But when I tried to add another partition, the Create Partition option was permanently grayed out. So I had accomplished the ridiculous feat of reducing a perfectly good 30 GB drive to 6 GB! On top of this, there was an error message informing me that io.sys was missing or bad and instructing me to reinsert the VCOM boot floppy. This suggested that the resizing had in fact *not* been done correctly. At this point there was nothing left to do but curse System Commander and reformat the drive. Later, I did achieve multibooting (Win2000, Win95b, LINUX) using a completely different utility, PartitionMagic5.01 from PowerQuest, and I heartily recommend that product.
Rating:
Summary: The latest version is not better.
Review: I should have spent time reading reviews before getting system commander. The only thing they did right was to warn about backing up any important data. Nothing worked the way it was supposed to including the partitioning. The idea sounds great, but it turns out the friend who recommended it had never actually tried the program.
Rating: 
Summary: Complicated, NOT for novice users.
Review: I was trying to install a DOS 6.22/Win 3.11 on my computer along with Win ME. I have an older version of Autocad that will not run on a drive formatted FAT 32, and I thought this would be a good way to go about it. I have a 12 GB HDD that was partitioned into 4 drives, C, D, E, and F; app 3GB each. I moved all the data from F and erased it. I then told System Commander to resize my C and D drives to 4GB each and create a FAT 16 drive out of the remaining space (998MB). An hour and a half later it was through making these changes; I could not stop the program and I was given no warning it was going to take this long. DOS would not install; it kept telling me the drive was unrecognisable, even after DOS formatted it. I forget what the drive size limit is for DOS, so this is probabaly my fault. I then installed WIN 95, SR1. When Win 95 would reboot during installation, it erased the System Commander MBR (this was easily replaced with the Disk 1 you should create during initial setup). When Win 95 booted, no problems. I did have to create an Autoexec.bat and Config.sys to get Autocad up and running. When I started Win ME, I had my C, D, and E drives as expected, but I also saw a drive F, which was my Win 95 installation. I found out how to make this invisible by mistake. The program does everything it promises it will do, and I have no complaints with it. The documentation, on the other hand, could use an overhaul. The program has provisions for Win ME, but the book does not. The help which accompanies the software is sketchy and does not explain things fully. I would recommend backing up your system fully before using this software, and if you are unsure of yourself, let someone who is familiar with the software do it for you.
Rating:
Summary: Complicated, NOT for novice users.
Review: I was trying to install a DOS 6.22/Win 3.11 on my computer along with Win ME. I have an older version of Autocad that will not run on a drive formatted FAT 32, and I thought this would be a good way to go about it. I have a 12 GB HDD that was partitioned into 4 drives, C, D, E, and F; app 3GB each. I moved all the data from F and erased it. I then told System Commander to resize my C and D drives to 4GB each and create a FAT 16 drive out of the remaining space (998MB). An hour and a half later it was through making these changes; I could not stop the program and I was given no warning it was going to take this long. DOS would not install; it kept telling me the drive was unrecognisable, even after DOS formatted it. I forget what the drive size limit is for DOS, so this is probabaly my fault. I then installed WIN 95, SR1. When Win 95 would reboot during installation, it erased the System Commander MBR (this was easily replaced with the Disk 1 you should create during initial setup). When Win 95 booted, no problems. I did have to create an Autoexec.bat and Config.sys to get Autocad up and running. When I started Win ME, I had my C, D, and E drives as expected, but I also saw a drive F, which was my Win 95 installation. I found out how to make this invisible by mistake. The program does everything it promises it will do, and I have no complaints with it. The documentation, on the other hand, could use an overhaul. The program has provisions for Win ME, but the book does not. The help which accompanies the software is sketchy and does not explain things fully. I would recommend backing up your system fully before using this software, and if you are unsure of yourself, let someone who is familiar with the software do it for you.
Rating:
Summary: Not recommanded
Review: I've used System Commander since the beginning. It is awesome. It makes everything very easy, but it also provides power when you need it.
Rating: 
Summary: The best
Review: I've used System Commander since the beginning. It is awesome. It makes everything very easy, but it also provides power when you need it.
| 
