Maintenance Releases > SCOUT Notes

What is Scout?

SCOUT, which stands for System Commander Output, is a free diagnostic utility designed by VCOM that can provide information helpful to our Technical Support Dept. should you have a technical question. The SCOUT program is downloaded from our website and run on your PC.

The program will scan your system and create a text file called Scout.txt in the current directory. This file will contain a detailed list of the partitions, hard drives, and operating systems that System Commander has detected.

SCOUT operates with any version of System Commander version 2.0 or above, Partition Commander, DriveWorks and Copy Commander. It runs under Windows 95/98/Me, DOS, and possibly other DOS-compatible systems. Some drive information is best collected when SCOUT is run without Windows GUI active (i.e. It is preferred to boot from a diskette and then run Scout).

What do I do with SCOUT?

Once you've downloaded the SCOUT program (download instructions appear in the next section), you simply run the SCOUT.EXE program. While it will run from a Windows 95/98/Me DOS box, some important drive information will hidden by Windows. It will not run under Windows NT/2000/XP/2003. We recommend if possible to boot from a Windows diskette (95/98/Me or DOS) and then run Scout from the prompt. There are no arguments. Running SCOUT takes about 10 seconds.

The created Scout.txt file will reside in the default directory. If booting from a boot diskette, typically Scout.txt will be written to the A:\ path.

Please include the SCOUT.TXT file with your fax or email, to the attention of Technical Support, along with your question. If you're contacting Technical Support via telephone, please have the Scout.txt file on hand. (How to contact Technical Support.)

How do I get a Scout?

To get SCOUT, you simply download it. We recommend that you place SCOUT in your System Commander/Partition Commander/DriveWorks directory, but you can place SCOUT anywhere that is convenient for you.