[Wine] Access to partition or entire disk

[Austin English]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:55 AM, xerces8 <wineforum-user at winehq.org> wrote:
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>> I.e., you want to mount an ISO, point to it in winecfg as a real
>> drive, and have the ISO file be the 'physical' device?
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> More or less (but for a hard drive, not CD/DVD).
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> For others, I would use a dedicated disk for this, no data on it to be lost or corrupted.
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Wine does not emulate a hard drive. You could use dd to make a disk
image, format it ext3 with mkfs.ext3, mount the image, then use wine
to access it. It's a lot of trouble though, not sure why you'd want
to...