[Wine] Wine Doesn't Detect Extra Drives

WarKirby wineforum-user at winehq.org
Sat Feb 27 09:13:59 CST 2010


Hello folks. I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic Koala)
I'm a former windows user, trying to use wine to continue using windows apps I need. Unfortunately, I'm running into a snag.

My computer has three physical drives:

one 160 GB drive, divided into two 80GB partitions. With windows XP on one, and ubuntu on the other

One 300 GB drive with a single 300GB partition on it. This drive contains almost all of my programs, games, and apps

One 750 GB drive, split into two 40GB partitions (empty) and one 670 GB partition, which holds most of my data.

I have my apps and data on entirely seperate drives from OSes, so that things aren't getting lost when I reinstall. This seemed like a pretty logical decision at the time.

Wine detects both partitions of the 160 gb drive, and all removable devices. USB sticks, dvd-rw drive, etc. But the 300 and 750 drives are entirely undetected. They're just...not there. I've tried adding them through autodetect in the wine config, but they're not detected. I've also tried adding them manually and browsing to the path, but wine only allows me to choose paths from within the ubuntu partition on the first drive. 

Ubuntu natively detects these drives and lets me access them just fine. I can also run things from them through wine, by navigating to the directory. However, I cannot run files in those directories by using links from the ubuntu desktop. Any App I try to do that with gives me lots of errors about missing files, and crashes. Also, whenever I successfully do run an app from one of those drives, said apps are unable to save or load anything to/from them.

It's really going to be a lot of bother to rebuild my filesystem on the 160 drive, not to mention I can only fit about 16% of it on there. Is there any way to get wine detecting these extra drives, as both windows and ubuntu can ?







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