Question on drive mappings

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I've got a workstation that dual boots to either Windows 2000 SP3 or to a DOS 7
(windows 95) command prompt. It has 2 physical drives; D1 which is partitioned
to P1, P2, and P3 and D2 which is one big partition. Both these drives live off
a Promise Ultra100 TX2 Controller card.

When booted to Win2000, the drive map is:

C: = D1-P1:, D: = D1-P2, E: = D1-P3, and F: = D2.

But where it boots to DOS 7, it is:

C: = D1-P1:, D: = D2, E: = D1-P2, and F: = D1-P3.

Why is this happening and how can I get the maps to be the same?

Thanks for any info. Sure seems strange to me.
 
It's an inherent issue with the fact that the first partition on drive1 is
also a primary partition hence the reason DOS wants to letter it second only
to the first primary active partition on drive0 (C:\) You can reassign
non-system, non-boot partition drive letters within Windows 2000 Disk
Management snap-in
 
It's an inherent issue with the fact that the first partition on drive1 is
also a primary partition hence the reason DOS wants to letter it second only
to the first primary active partition on drive0 (C:\) You can reassign
non-system, non-boot partition drive letters within Windows 2000 Disk
Management snap-in

Thanks. Confused me since they mapped the same until I put in the bigger D1 on
the controller card. I usually boot to DOS mainly for backup, lucky for me the
ghost .bats use raw partition commands rather than logicals or it could have
been ugly.

They appear in win2000 the way I want them to. Would it be possible to bring the
DOS maps in line using fdisk without affecting the win2000 settings? Sounds
risky though.
 
NT+ partititions can be renamed (remapped) pretty much at will
(except for system\boot or those where apps already depend on
the current settings.)

Using Disk Manager is easiest for this.

Example: The (primary) CD-ROM on every single one of our
machines is R: -- no issue of number of hard drives or volumes,
you can walk up to any machine, place a CD in the drive, and
find it easily.
 
The only way to put D2 after all of D1 in "DOS" is to make D2 an
"Extended" Partition in other words NO Primary partition
 
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