edit C: drive path.

Reconunit415 · Post by **Reconunit415** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 12:17 am

I recently killed my Windows installation with the "upgrade" to SP3. Some driver bull$#!7 idk... Well, I need to uninstall Sp3, but the cache is, I can't uninstall it if I'm not booted into Windows because it automatically expects the drive letter to be C:. Well, here's my plan: I want to reassign temporarily the C: drive in WINE to /media/disk instead of c_drive... Unfortunately, it is not letting me.

Can anyone tell me how to override this?

Thanks.
*recon415 out.

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 1:12 am

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:17 AM, Reconunit415
<[email protected]> wrote:

I recently killed my Windows installation with the "upgrade" to SP3. Some driver bull$#!7 idk... Well, I need to uninstall Sp3, but the cache is, I can't uninstall it if I'm not booted into Windows because it automatically expects the drive letter to be C:. Well, here's my plan: I want to reassign temporarily the C: drive in WINE to /media/disk instead of c_drive... Unfortunately, it is not letting me.

Can anyone tell me how to override this?

Thanks.
*recon415 out.

You don't want to do this. It won't do what you want. That protection
is there for a reason.

Use your Windows disk and do a repair install.

--
-Austin

James Mckenzie · Post by **James Mckenzie** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 9:16 am

Reconunit415 <[email protected]> at Sent: Oct 29, 2008 10:17 PM scribbed an encoded transmission on the Wine Forum about [Wine] edit C: drive path.

I recently killed my Windows installation with the "upgrade" to SP3. Some driver bull$#!7 idk... Well, I need to uninstall Sp3, but the cache is, I can't uninstall it if I'm not booted into Windows because it automatically expects the drive letter to be C:. Well, here's my plan: I want to reassign temporarily the C: drive in WINE to /media/disk instead of c_drive... Unfortunately, it is not letting me.

This is there for a reason. What you experienced is one of the reasons I left the World of Microsoft a long, long time ago. It is called the "Need to Re-install" which is what you are faced with now. This is a long, boring and very frustrating task starting with a backup of data from your hard drive (you did create a D: partition to store all of your data in correct) and ending with the complete re-installation of every application you installed. You can try the shortcut of attempting to repair your Windows installation, but this fails in many cases. My solution was to move away from Windows to OS/2, then Linux and lastly run a Mac laptop (Office 2008 is available for the Mac as well as many other applications, I run Wine because several small house programmers refuse to build for the Mac.)

Can anyone tell me how to override this?

No, and it basically should not be done. This is extremely dangerous and you could end up with a brick that used to be called a hard drive.

I have an upgrade strategy for Windows that I've found to work real well:

1. Don't upgrade unless you need functionality only the upgrade provides.
2. Backup, backup and backup again your hard drive's C: partition. You did create a D: partition to install your applications and data to, didn't you? Only Windows should exist on your C: partition.
3. Run the upgrade.
4. If the upgrade fails, restore your C: partition and complain LOUDLY about what happened to Microsoft.
5. Install Linux/Wine and work with that.

James McKenzie

Reconunit415 · Post by **Reconunit415** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:47 pm

James Mckenzie wrote: <snipped>
James McKenzie

Heh... somehow I feel this isn't going to turn out right.. Well, thanks for the advice. Creating a D: drive was just about the smartest thing I've ever done ('sides install Ubuntu). I'm still going to spend a few more days trying to fix it (like recovery console), but it is getting more and more hopeless...

*recon415 out.

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 10:45 pm

Reconunit415 wrote:

James Mckenzie wrote:

<snipped>
James McKenzie

Heh... somehow I feel this isn't going to turn out right.. Well, thanks for the advice. Creating a D: drive was just about the smartest thing I've ever done ('sides install Ubuntu). I'm still going to spend a few more days trying to fix it (like recovery console), but it is getting more and more hopeless...

You might want to just re-install Windows or try using Wine with your
applications. Again, working with Wine is almost like working with
Windows, except the bloat.

James Mckenzie

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