V-Com System Commander 7.0

by V-Communications

Product Features

• OS manager and disk partition package
• Supports every PC-compatible OS
• Automatic preparation for adding OSes
• Safely resize, create, move and copy for Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP, Linux and DOS partitions
• Undo partitioning if needed

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005V140
• Item model number: 28200001
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,447 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #34 in Software > Utilities > Partitions
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Manage your operating system with System Commander 7.0. With full support for Microsoft Windows XP, 2000, NT 4.0, and more, System Commander 7.0 ensures that you'll be able to work uninterrupted while you're working out any kinks associated with your new operating system. System Commander 7.0's OS Wizard automatically prepares your PC for your new operating system. Plus, you also receive Partition Commander 6.0, a powerful partitioning tool.

System Commander 7.0 protects the documents and data already saved on your computer. No drivers or resident memory are needed, and you won't experience performance degradation or have OS conflicts. The software's convenient BackStep wizard safely and easily returns your system to its original configuration if needed. Choose from a number of user-interface styles, or create your own look in the System Commander design center.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars What a disappointment - still, it works, mostly, April 9, 2002

By 

Atlanta Network Guy (Atlanta, GA United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: V-Com System Commander 7.0 (CD-ROM)

Despite the fact that I have been up to my navel in PC technology for many years, and have previously used several types of multi-OS multi-boot systems, and despite having seen this product on several systems along the way, I never used it until recently.

Oh the pain! Oh the suffering! Oh the sorrow!

I don't know how this product came to be number one in it's field, for it surely does it's job very badly.

It eventually does everything it claims to do. But before that happens, it makes you stand on your head atop a blue moose every Tuesday.

The user interface is very pretty and totally useless in terms of information given. If something doesn't boot correctly (almost sure to happen during setup) it only presents terse little mesages like "Error detected, process stopped" and absolutely nothing to give you a clue about what went wrong.

The built in "wizards" should be called "court jesters" instead. If something goes wrong in an install the "wizard" doesn't undo or leave a bookmark, but just leaves the mess on your drive for you to clean up manually. It never even tells you that it did that, and your fisrt indication is when after several retries, it tells you there isn't any space left on your drive.

If a 1000 monkeys typing for 1000 years will eventually produce a work of Shakespeare, it must have taken only 10 monkeys about 10 years to produce the manual for this product. Everything you need to know to make this product work is IN the manual, but it is so poorly organized, so horribly laid out, that you must read the manual from front to back and take your own notes before you can use this product with any comfort and attempt to debug any problems. No explaination of menu choices organized by menu, no explaination of utility options organized by utility, no explaination of errors indexed by error codes or types. The manual seems to be laid out as a brain dump, with items covered in the order that someone thought to include it.

Tech support at the V-Com web site is a joke, with "kiddie" FAQs covering the most elemental questions ("Can I use the Windows version on my Mac?" type stuff) and a truely meager symptom-fix database with a search engine that seems to have a vocabulary of less than 100 words (i.e., returns like "no hits found on the word "unix", please try again")

Bottom line - you can make this product do what it claims to do - which is why I give it a mighty two stars - but prepare for some loss of sleep and hair, and be double sure to have all your data backed up first, because you will surely lose some learning how this works.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It's good, but it needs work..., January 1, 2003

By 

"eggerlis" (Omaha, NE USA) - See all my reviews

I purchased System Commander 7 in hopes of studying (trying out) RedHat Linux 8 while running my normal WinXP. After the installation, the ride was a little bumpy; several restarts before the freezing stopped. After that, everything worked great for both RH8 and WinXP. Then I decided to run Norton Speed Disk on my WinXP partition (NTFS). After I finished, I rebooted and boom, the MBR was ruined. Apparently, Norton had moved a critical file belonging to SC7 and rendered my XP partition toast. I used the XP recovery utility with fixmbr and fixboot, but the partition would never boot again. I removed the partition, and made a new one... installing XP on top plus SC7. Now everything is working normal again. However, in the end I had data loss (most of what I recovered). Luckily, most of my files run off another independent drive.

All in all, I valued the chance to run Linux in dual boot with XP and just had to put up with the little quirks of SC7 that caused me problems. Number one rule, backup is HIGHLY recommended when using SC7 (and they are not kidding). :)

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars System Commander 7, August 19, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: V-Com System Commander 7.0 (CD-ROM)

System Commander 7 is a very powerful product. It does what it says it can do. You should always have the correct version for the operating systems it says it supports. For people who have XP you should have the latest version 7.05. You either love it or you hate it simple as that.