access another drive

orlcam88 · Post by **orlcam88** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 2:05 pm

Sorry if I'm repeating some of the other post questions but the answer wasn't quite clear as what I want to do.

I'm using Ubuntu fully not dual boot. I have 4 drives. One is my main Ubuntu drive. Another drive (call it the D drive) is a holdover from windows that have photos and videos. The other two are backups.

I want to access my D drive in Wine but I can't see it in the drive's tab in Wine. This drive was not formatted for Linux, so it still is in NTSF format.
Is is it possible to access it in wine?

If this is not possible, then if I take one of the backup drives, format it in ext3 (? newbie) and copy everything from D to the newly reformatted drive, will I now be able to access the new external drive in Wine?

Gert van den Berg · Post by **Gert van den Berg** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 2:11 pm

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 21:05, orlcam88<[email protected]> wrote:

Sorry if I'm repeating some of the other post questions but the answer wasn't quite clear as what I want to do.

I'm using Ubuntu fully not dual boot. Â I have 4 drives. Â One is my main Ubuntu drive. Â Another drive (call it the D drive) Â is a holdover from windows that have photos and videos. Â The other two are backups.

I want to access my D drive in Wine but I can't see it in the drive's tab in Wine. Â This drive was not formatted for Linux, so it still is in NTSF format.
Is is it possible to access it in wine?

If you can access it in Linux, run winecfg and add it... You do not
want to run applications from an NTFS drive currently, due to
limitations of the driver for the filesystem.

If this is not possible, then if I take one of the backup drives, format it in ext3 (? newbie) and copy everything from D to the newly reformatted drive, will I now be able to access the new external drive in Wine?

What do you want to do?

Access the NTFS drive from Linux (not a Wine issue, you should be able
to double click on it or something, but as google and the Ubuntu
forums) or do you have a program running in Wine that requires
datafrom an NTFS drive?

Gert

orlcam88 · Post by **orlcam88** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 3:26 pm

I'll be accessing files only, jpeg, mpegs etc. No programs will be run. For example, from photoshop CS2, I want to access photos.

When I access the config, I can't select the drive. It doesn't come up as a selection. I can access it from Ubuntu Places but It doesn't show in Wine.

orlcam88 · Post by **orlcam88** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 3:44 pm

Ok, I figured it out. Linux structure is a bit different than Windows.

For other newbies, in configurations,
select the Drive tab, then press the add button. You'll get a list of folders. Go down to the media folder and you'll see a list of folders that should have your drive name.
select the drive you want to add and you're done.

Thanks!

Gert van den Berg · Post by **Gert van den Berg** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 10:42 pm

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 22:26, orlcam88<[email protected]> wrote:

I'll be accessing files only, jpeg, mpegs etc. Â No programs will be run.

Do you need to access it from Wine? Isn't it easier to use it directly
from Linux?

orlcam88 · Post by **orlcam88** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 8:20 am

I'm using Photoshop via wine, and it only shows the directories that are listed in Wine.

Gert van den Berg · Post by **Gert van den Berg** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 12:36 pm

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 15:20, orlcam88<[email protected]> wrote:

I'm using Photoshop via wine, and it only shows the directories that are listed in Wine.

Ah, ok.

On a default Wine install you can access your entire Linux file system
through z:

orlcam88 · Post by **orlcam88** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 12:42 pm

interesting, I'll try that.

Thanks.