http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6194
------- Additional Comments From dank@kegel.com 2007-04-01 02:15 ------- With today's wine, you still need to rename drive_c, but the crash no longer happens. Instead, the installer aborts with a "path not found" dialog. The log shows
trace:file:FindFirstFileExW L"c:\windows\system32\CatRoot\{F750E6C3-38EE-11D1-85E5-00C04FC295EE}\*.cat" 0 0x33b7b4 0 (nil) 0 ... warn:file:wine_nt_to_unix_file_name L"CatRoot\{F750E6C3-38EE-11D1-85E5-00C04FC295EE}\" not found in /home/dank/.wine/dosdevices/c:/windows/system32 ... err:eventlog:ReportEventW L"Path not found\r\n"
I gather the CatRoot directory is related to Windows File Protection and is supposed to contain signed catalogs of files; see http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa906236.aspx