wine users - Oct 2008 - 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.

Can anyone tell me how to override this?

Thanks.
*recon415 out.

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 12:17 AM, Reconunit415
<wineforum-user at winehq.org> 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.
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> Can anyone tell me how to override this?
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> Thanks.
> *recon415 out.
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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

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

James Mckenzie wrote:
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> 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.