Vista and ME, 98, XP on System Commander 8 problems...

We have one harddrive split into 3 drive letters.. C, D, E

C is the "dirty" os, where we can copy the contents of say E:\win98
onto D:\ (root), thus making D a virgin copy of any OS at any time.

In the boot menu for system commander we have all options listed..
ie: WinXP (dirty) -ie: c drive.. WinXP Virgin -ie: d , same
thing for win98 etc.

The issue is that win98 has to have fat32 on the C, D.. E is not so
bad, as this just stores the good images.

Now enter a new issue.. Vista.. I've added a 200gb harddrive for
installing vista and using NTFS.. call these drive letters G, H under
Win98 or XP..

So I installed Vista to the first partition of drive G (the 200gb
harddrive)..

Vista then takes over the MBR and loads (c drive is the sys drive,
really wanted this to be "d" though)..

I then reinstalled Sys Commander, got my menu back, added the Vista
entries (which do work fine btw)... Now the other entries for 98, XP,
XP dirty etc do not work.

I cant seem to figure out how to do this with Vista and a second
harddrive involved...

Anyone dealt with this as of yet?

Any better alternatives to Sys Commander.. here the idea is that we
can boot to the dirty C, restore any OS to that virgin D drive from
the storage on E, in minutes.. VS say using Acronis which may take
longer to restore these images.

Thanks

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