http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9313
--- Comment #31 from Jesse Allen the3dfxdude@gmail.com 2007-09-03 21:15:50 --- (In reply to comment #29)
So how do I use wine at all? My C: drive isn't in ~/.wine/drive_c. Am I supposed to use a softlink? If so, why does winecfg allow the C: drive to be changed? Why isn't all this documented in the wine install directions?
I did what appeared to me to be a perfectly reasonable set of steps, and I got a bizarre result. That means that something is wrong with wine that needs to be fixed. Wine installation should not be an expert system that requires common users to read every obscure bit of documentation on the web, such as some page called "winetricks".
Maybe. There is a reason why windows does not allow switching the drive letter for the currently running windows install. However, wine is definitely more lenient as you actually can do it if done right. This bug as filed is invalid from a broken config.
Most people do not need to switch drive C so this is kind of an obscure thing to deal with.