browse C: drive does not show all directories / files

pelico · Post by **pelico** » Sun May 17, 2009 2:29 am

I have installed Wine 1.1.21 on Linux-Mint 7 rc1. When I use 'Browse C:\ drive' I don't see all the directories, and files. For examples under C:\Program Files I only see the 'Common Files', and 'Internet Explorer' directories.

I am trying to access a vista system drive. I have change the application settings to vista. I have also checked the FAQ, the manual and the forum. It looks like I am the only one with this problem. What I am doing wrong?

pelico · Post by **pelico** » Sun May 17, 2009 3:59 am

I was confused. I thought that drive C: mapped to my Vista system drive. I used Configured Wine to map to vista system drive to solve my problem.

jay · Post by **jay** » Sun May 17, 2009 8:17 am

pelico wrote:I was confused. I thought that drive C: mapped to my Vista system drive. I used Configured Wine to map to vista system drive to solve my problem.

You should NOT do that, the wine C: should NOT be a real windows C: drive!
You could end up in a non-working Wine and you will break your Windows!
Also keep in mind that Wine uses an own registry so you can't use most programs installed on Windows from Wine anyway, instead you should reinstall them in Wine using a seperate C: drive for Wine.

Read http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-497f1a2 ... 2c7767afa2

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Sun May 17, 2009 8:17 am

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 4:59 AM, pelico <[email protected]> wrote:

I was confused. I thought that drive C: mapped to my Vista system drive. I used Configured Wine to map to vista system drive to solve my problem.

DO NOT do that. You will end up corrupting both vista and wine.

John

James McKenzie · Post by **James McKenzie** » Sun May 17, 2009 11:15 am

pelico wrote:

I was confused. I thought that drive C: mapped to my Vista system drive. I used Configured Wine to map to vista system drive to solve my problem.

This is an extremely bad thing to do. This will corrupt your Vista
installation, may violate the MS End User License and other things.
What you should do is install the programs you want to use in Wine, map
the input/output directories to those in Vista and use the programs in
that manner.

James McKenzie

pelico · Post by **pelico** » Tue May 19, 2009 2:18 pm

Thanks for the answers. I meant to say that after I understood that C: was my Wine system virtual drive, I mapped my vista drive to drive E: in order for my programs installed on wine to look at my vista drive as a data drive. For example for a word processor installed on wine (c: virtual drive) to edit a file directly on the vista drive (drive E: ). This should not be a problem should it?

austin987 · Post by **austin987** » Tue May 19, 2009 2:21 pm

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 2:18 PM, pelico <[email protected]> wrote:

Thanks for the answers. I meant to say that after I understood that C: was my Wine system virtual drive, I mapped my vista drive to drive E: in order for my programs installed on wine to look at my vista drive as a data drive. For example for a word processor installed on wine (c: virtual drive) to edit a file directly on the vista drive (drive E: ). This should not be a problem should it?

Should work fine, but there have been issues for some programs that
try to use NTFS specific features on the file, that NTFS-3G didn't
handle correctly.

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-Austin