BIG MISTAKE? Ran Wine on dual-boot Linux box with writable C: drive!
dscott
Linux box (dual-boot, Linux/WinXP) after I upgraded it. When I ran it
the first time, it ran its configuration scripts (I assume) and
unfortunately I had old settings that it picked up which pointed it at
my *real* C: drive (mounted R/W for the first time with this new
version of Linux) and I am very afraid that it scrambled some of my
actual WinXP configuration. I am having troubles with my machine when
running under XP but cannot pinpoint the date when the problem began.
So:
1) Is it possible for Wine to have done what I suggest given my
mistakes?
2) Anyone have any suggestions about what changes I could look for?
Thank you.
FYI, I had this, among other things, in ~/.wine/config from a VERY OLD
attempt to use Wine:
[Drive C]
"Path" = "/mnt/win_c"
"Type" = "hd"
"Label" = "MS-DOS-C"
"Filesystem" = "win2k"
[wine]
"Windows"="c:\\WINNT"
"System"="c:\\WINNT\\system32"
"Temp" = "c:\\temp"
"Path"="c:\\WINNT;c:\\WINNT\\system32;"
"Profile"="c:\\Documents and Settings\\dscott"
"GraphicsDriver"="x11drv"
Rein Klazes
<douglas...@gmail.com> wrote:
>I am having troubles with my machine when
>running under XP but cannot pinpoint the date when the problem began.
>So:
>
>1) Is it possible for Wine to have done what I suggest given my
>mistakes?
Yes, that was true in the past and is true still. The difference is that
it is now much harder to configure wine that way, but since you have an
old installation ...
>
>2) Anyone have any suggestions about what changes I could look for?
Wine can do just about anything. Files can be written, deleted, renamed.
I remember the "Program Files" directory and all of its subdirs renamed
to filenames with lots of $$$$ signs in it. Same in the windows
directory. Just the registry seems to be safe, wine never wrote to a XP
registry.
Before ever using wine again: remove that .wine directory and start
fresh and safe.
Rein.