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First post, by Pabloz

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There's this old software called "VCOM System Commander", released by VCOM, and later bought by Avanquest I believe, not sold anymore as the last time it was released was during the Windows Vista era.

It looks like a great tool to make multi-boot OS (DOS, win3.11, Win95, Win98, WinME, WinXP) all in one hard drive. And from what I read, it gives a nice GUI menu on boot, and it works by hiding partitions so each Windows thinks it's the only one on the hard drive.

Reply 1 of 6, by BloodyCactus

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I will say, System Commander is great. I paid for multiple versions back in the day. System Commander 4, 6, 7, 200, Drive Works, etc.

It is good, sometimes version show up on ebay but its rare as it was mostly sold digtially.

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Reply 3 of 6, by Pabloz

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oeuvre wrote:

been using it for a while now, most excellent

is it easy to use? you partition the HDD in 5 partitions and then install each OS?
one partition for dos , another for win31 , another partition for win95 , win98, winxp?

Reply 4 of 6, by oeuvre

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eh, why partition DOS and 3.x separately? but yeah ,you can partition it that way but it likes using its own partitioner. I'd install MS-DOS first, then system commander 7 from it.

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Reply 5 of 6, by BloodyCactus

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yeah it works best installed on a dos partition.

Later versions only came as a windows installer, I forget if its SC2000 and on. I know 'Drive Works' version was only a windows installer. Older versions were dos installers.

it does its own thing with hiding partitions, marking them as active/bootable etc.

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