http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12115
--- Comment #14 from Anastasius Focht focht@gmx.net 2008-03-22 04:21:08 --- Hello,
--- quote --- i dont agree with you
there are few software for file recovery over an ext2/3 filesystem, so it is possible to use this software under Wine --- quote ---
You actually haven't read what I wrote... I didn't say that's impossible to use this software under wine!
You can still use it for drives which are mapped to physical devices/partitions (assuming mounted with proper permissions). You can't use it on wine's builtin 'pseudo' disk device 'drive_c' because it does *not* map to a real disk device! Although some physical disk device behaviour is emulated (few ioctls, disk geometry, volume info, serial number) it doesn't work like a full fledged physical partition. By design.
--- quote --- i an trying to use recuva in the drive_c created by Wine, which is ext2/3 filesystem after all --- quote ---
Again, you haven't understood. You mix up several things.
--- quote --- i have tried to recover files from my physical NTFS partition (mounted as hda1), but fails too, though it displays a different error code. I cant pos it now bwecause i donot know it but let me post it tomorrow, maybe in another bug report --- quote ---
If the tool is used against drives which are backed by disk devices/partitions then this bug is valid. If you persist to use it on 'pseudo' disk device 'drive_c' then this bug is simply WONTFIX/INVALID.
--- quote --- Even if you fooled recuva into thinking your drive_c was a physical hard drive, it's the wrong partition type. There's a possibility that it may be possible to have recuva work on a usb drive for instance, or some other device that IS FAT/NTFS formatted, but I don't know how easy that would be to implement. --- quote ---
Austin, please don't add more confusion. This tool can perfectly work on real disk devices. Wine has all the necessary stuff implemented.
Regards