The A+ Certification & PC Repair Handbook (Charles River Media Networking/Security)

Displays the assignment of drive letters to physical partitions. The output is useful if you want to run DISKPART, FIXBOOT, or FIXMBR.

Use

Type “MAP”, followed by the arc switch, if desired.

Switch

arc: Causes the output to use the ARC format rather than the device name format. The arc switch is preceded only by a space, not by a slash or any other punctuation mark, as shown:

MAP arc

Note

The ARC name looks like the following: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)

The device name for the same drive and partition is \Device\HardDisk0\Partition1. For more information on device names and the ARC naming convention, search the Web.