Access to partition or entire disk

[xerces8]

Hi!

Is it possible to set up Wine for access to a real partition or entire disc over standard Windows API ?

Or at least access to "disk-file" ?
(that is : a file in the linux system that appears to Wine processes as a physical disk)

Thanks,
David

[John Drescher]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:40 AM, xerces8 <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi!

Is it possible to set up Wine for access to a real partition or entire disc over standard Windows API ?

Or at least access to "disk-file" ?
(that is : a file in the linux system that appears to Wine processes as a physical disk)

Not sure what the heck you are talking about but you do not want to
have you wine C: drive mapped to the real windows c: because this will
lead to corruption of your windows drive and also break your wine as
well.

John

[austin987]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 10:40 AM, xerces8 <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi!

Is it possible to set up Wine for access to a real partition or entire disc over standard Windows API ?

Or at least access to "disk-file" ?
(that is : a file in the linux system that appears to Wine processes as a physical disk)

Thanks,
David

I.e., you want to mount an ISO, point to it in winecfg as a real
drive, and have the ISO file be the 'physical' device?

[vitamin]

Or at least access to "disk-file" ?
(that is : a file in the linux system that appears to Wine processes as a physical disk)

No Wine can not do things like that. You have to mount such a "disk-files" with your system and them point Wine to it.

[xerces8]

I.e., you want to mount an ISO, point to it in winecfg as a real
drive, and have the ISO file be the 'physical' device?

More or less (but for a hard drive, not CD/DVD).

For others, I would use a dedicated disk for this, no data on it to be lost or corrupted.

[austin987]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:55 AM, xerces8 <[email protected]> wrote:

austin987 wrote:

I.e., you want to mount an ISO, point to it in winecfg as a real
drive, and have the ISO file be the 'physical' device?

More or less (but for a hard drive, not CD/DVD).

For others, I would use a dedicated disk for this, no data on it to be lost or corrupted.

Wine does not emulate a hard drive. You could use dd to make a disk
image, format it ext3 with mkfs.ext3, mount the image, then use wine
to access it. It's a lot of trouble though, not sure why you'd want
to...

[xerces8]

Because some windows programs work like that (access the disk) and therefore fail in Wine.

But if Wine does not offer this then I accept that