多系统引导工具 System Commander.9.04

System Commander 9 Notes CONTENTS A. Introduction G. OEM Windows - erases all! B. What's new in SC9 H. Troubleshooting C. Updates in this version I. Technical Support D. Features J. Disk managers/EZ-Drive E. Important Issues K. Ordering Information F. OS Restrictions A. Introduction System Commander 9 provides the best OS management with full partitioning in one integrated package! Its OS Wizard makes it the easiest and safest way to add a new OS! System Commander is your installation assistant! When you are ready to install a new OS, let System Commander take care of all of the details that you normally worry about when getting ready to install new OSes. IMPORTANT When installing new OSes or changing partitions we always recommend you have a backup of any important data and programs. B. What's New System Commander 9 adds a host of new features beyond prior versions. A few of these new features include: * Automatic detection and identification for Windows Vista * OS Wizard improvements, including support for Windows Vista * New Vista style GUI * Selection for booting both CDs and DVDs (requires BIOS support) * Improved Check MBR feature to automatically recover from damaged MBR * Ability to disable Windows boot management and undo the damage to other Windows OSes caused by Vista's installation. * Includes an enhanced version of Partition Commander 9, which is integrated with System Commander * Includes integrated Copy Commander 9 * Partitioning operations now support USB drives, USB mouse and keyboards. C. Updates in this version (9.02) > Improved partitioning support for damaged partition entries common on USB flash drives and some OEM Vista systems. > Improved video card color support - gets around firmware bugs in some video cards > Resolves a conflict between some USB and PS/2 mouse ports > Any recovery partition ids are left unhidden at all times > Other minor issues and improvements D. Features With System Commander you'll be able to have multiple operating systems function on a single PC. Once installed, when you boot up, you will be provided with a menu of OS choices, based on the operating systems you install. Key Benefits * Management of up to 100+ different operating systems: up to 32 FAT compatible OSes in one partition up to 56 primary partitions on up to 14 drives up to 16 OSes in logical partitions up to 4 OSes which boot from a non standard MBR * Special diskette drive support boot from A: or B: even if diskette booting is turned off in your BIOS setup. * Boot from a bootable CD/DVD, even if not selected to do so from your BIOS, * Menu selections are offered before any operating system runs * Automatic management of hidden system files and configuration files such as AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS, BOOT.INI, etc. * Remembers the last selection made * Choose from a number of unique sound effects when System Commander's menu appears * Select a time-out period to automatically make a selection * Automatically saves newly installed OS versions * View partition information and change bootable status * Master Boot Record and MultiFAT partition boot record virus detection and repair Technical Highlights * Fully compatible with Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT/2000/XP, Windows 2003/Vista, Linux, OS/2 Warp, NetWare, Solaris, other Unix variants, DOS and all other PC compatible OSes. * Can be installed into any standard FAT, FAT32 or NTFS partition. * No bytes remain resident in memory after OS selection * Comprehensive boot validity checks and recovery options * Zero overhead - Allows you to use the full power of your system with each OS. E. Important Issues Disk Compression System Commander is fully compatible with disk compression, but must be installed in the non-compressed C drive. Normally System Commander will identify the non-compressed disk for you. One of System Commander's many features includes the ability to run multiple OSes in different partitions or the same partition. When using disk compression, we strongly recommend always installing each new OS in a separate partition, rather than together with other OSes. Disk compression is very specific to the OS and version you have installed. For example, PC-DOS 6 disk compression is quite different and incompatible with MS-DOS 6's disk compression. Many new OSes, such as NT and OS/2 will be unable to see any compressed DOS or Windows 95/98 disks. Technical support cannot assist you with problems of trying to run multiple OSes inside a single compressed partition. The best strategy, when you must have disk compression software, is to always place new OSes in their own isolated partition. GoBack is not compatible Our testing with GoBack versions 1 through 3 has shown it is not compatible with any boot management products including System Commander. If GoBack is installed prior to System Commander, it will not let System Commander complete its installation. If System Commander is installed prior to GoBack, then GoBack will disable System Commander. The reason for these problems is that GoBack partly resides in the MBR, where boot management products must reside. While System Commander has a special MBR boot feature that solves this obstacle, GoBack also alters the FAT and FAT32 partitions into custom non-FAT partitions. (which also prevents partition resizing). If you would like to have boot management and the ability to have partitioning features like resize, optimize and FAT conversions, you might consider an alternative product. Windows Me and XP/2003 provide a similar service as part of the OS. Linux Installations If an extended partition exists, yet has no logical partitions, OS Wizard will only allow Linux to be installed into primary partitions. If you have this scenario, please delete the empty extended partition first, and let the OS Wizard automatically create the extended partition and logicals for Linux. F. Operating System Restrictions Each OS has specific installation restrictions defined by the OS vendor. For your convenience, we've summarized the key aspects of OSes relating to installation limitations on the hard disk. These restrictions are automated with the OS Wizard. If you do not wish to use the OS Wizard, these facts will help you determine how a new OS can be installed. This is not a comprehensive list and vendors may change the limitations in future versions. In general, if an OS can be installed somewhere, System Commander can boot it. The chart shows where the bootable portion of the OS can be installed. Every OS can be installed in a primary partition on the allowed hard drives. Some OSes can install into a logical partition, which is a portion of an extended partition. When known, we've also shown the manufacture's minimum partition size for its installation. To install applications, and/or have any free disk space to work with, you should always allocate more disk space than the minimum size shown. Newer versions than those specified, will usually require a