Bill, naturally, we used different partitions, I think we had about 4 or 5
or even 6, and we had tons of problems. i think it was HJ that told us not
to use system commander.
At 12:55 PM 3/16/99 , you wrote:
> damon you may want to contact the author, i found him to be very accessable.
> also willing to listen.
> are you saying you tested system commander on a system with one partition?
> i would never do that in a million years.
> if i used such a product i would use seperat partitions.
> you see why test something if you are not testing it the way people use
> it, with n t that does not mean fat 16.
>
> now it may well be that system commander goes crazy over the key thinking
> it might be a virus.
> you may want to ask if that is possible, if so is their an option to
> disable it.
> if not the author seemed like he might be willing to listen.
> well just wanted to let you know he seemed like the type that would.
> thanks for hearing me out.
>
>
> bill
>
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> At 11:30 AM 3/17/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >Scott, stay clear!!!! We tested system commander and lost tons of
> >authorization keys, due to system commands manipulation of the boo sector
> >of the hard drive and other data. It apparently upsets jfw greatly. I would
> >even avoid the use of partitionmagic or any utility to upsets the
> >configuration of your hard drive, unless you want to continually move keys
> >around or keep pestering hj for reset codes or the like. It is more trouble
> >than it is worth. Besides, why would you want to run 95 anmd98, they are
> >very much alike except for a few differences, mostly under the hood. If you
> >wanted to run 95/98 or nt, then make separate hard drive partitions and run
> >off that. I don't know if system commander is a great idea in general, and
> >it is a bad idea for jfw users.
> >At 07:51 PM 3/12/99 , you wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Listers,
> >>
> >> Has anybody heard of system commander? This is a dos program that allows
> >> you to have up to thirty different operating systems on your computer.
when
> >> your system boots up, it boots into dos, and you can choose which
operating
> >> system to let boot up on your pc. Lets say you want to upgrade to windows
> >> 98, or even 2,000 nt, but you really know windows95 best. You don't habve
> >> to boot into 95, you can choose windows98 say from system commander, and
> >> windows 98 will boot up in 98 with everything that 95 or 22,000 has, or
> >> which ever you wish to learn on that day. Lets say you get tired of using
> >> 98 and need to get back into 95 to do some serious stuff, so you go
back to
> >> system commander, choose 95 and that is it! windows 95 comes up with all
> >> your programs on it. Really cool.
> >> Does anybody use or anybody ever heard of this? I think it would be a
> >> great thing to have. This way you could run 95,98 and 2,000 nt and choose
> >> each one at different times and eqach will boot with all your software.
> >> I would like some feedback if you can on this if anyone has heard of
this.
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >--
> >Damon Fibraio, Associate for Technical Support, De Witt and Associates
> >Norma F. Krajczar Technology, resource and developement center
> >130 Livingston Ave. New Brunswick, NJ 08901, 732-937-6394
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