Problems with mount manager when trying to use c: from hdd

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I've installed wine-1.5.23 in Ubuntu 12.04.2, planning to run games i have on a separated hdd with Windows installed. So I created a symbolic link from /home/user/.wine/drive_c/ to /media/WinHDD/

Then I tried to run Battlefield 2, the game works fine but it shows a "insert cd" error, so I ran winecfg to setup the drives and then I get the error "err:winecfg:open_mountmgr failed to open mount manager err 2".

I tried running winecfg as gksudo, and after creating a new .wine folder in /root/ it opened and this time the drives tab worked fine, so I closed it and created a new symbolic link from /root/.wine/drive_c/ to /media/WinHDD/. And when I opened winecfg again, the drives are not working anymore.

So the cause is obviously the symbolic link that make use of the existing window installation on the other hdd, does anyone have any idea how to fix this?

I tried creating a text file on the /media/WinHDD/ and it worked so I guess is not a permissions problem.

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http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-878d4f6 ... a4a4cafa13
http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#run_as_root

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Thanks for the links, I though it was possible to point drive_c to an existing win installation.

I mean most apps works fine with the symbolic link I tried, like bf2, it start fine its just that it doesn't have the cdrom. I tried setting the correct drive as cdrom with winecfg before making the symlink (which is when it works fine), and then I created the symlink (which cause the winecfg drives tab to stop working) and bf2 still show the cdrom error.