[Wine] Wine broke my WindowsXP (can't login)

[Peter Beutner]

Duane Clark schrieb:
> Peter Beutner wrote:
>> Dan Kegel schrieb:
>>> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:26 AM, helix <wineforum-user at winehq.org> 
>>> wrote:
>>>>  > What do I have to do to stop users doing this.
>>>>
>>>>  Maybe stating somewhere that files in ~/.wine/dosdevices/c
>>>> etc. are modified by Wine -- I didn't expect that.
>>>> I thought that these just set up some interfaces to have
>>>> the windows directories available to Wine, but I didn't expect Wine 
>>>> to write there.
>>> I'll keep that in mind, maybe we can make it clearer.
>>
>> Don't allow to change the drive mapping for C:\ in winecfg probably 
>> would be a good start.
>> Add some explaining text why (in general) you don't want to change it 
>> and explicitly say
>> that wine has (and needs) its own, separate windows installation (in 
>> C:\windows).
> 
> Perhaps better would be if winecfg checked whether the drive being 
> mapped to had a Windows system on it, and popped up a big warning box if 
> so. I hate having programs tell me I can't do things ;)

The point is that just changing the mapping (for C:) in winecfg won't 
really work. You would have to copy over the stuff from the old location
or run wineprefixcreate again.
You would only lose something that doesn't properly work anyway.
Which imo is a good thing. I wouldn't hate programs for that ;).

Besides, I don't really see much practical use in moving the C: drive.
And you can still do it manually if you really need it.