wine users - Sep 2008 - Can Wine be configured to access unmountable harddrive?

Hello...

I am trying to run a program under linux using wine called "Recover My
Files".  This program is designed to recover data from corrupted harddrives
contining FAT and NTFS partitions by reading them sector by sector or cluster by
cluster.

The thing is, the drive in question is unmountable due to logic problems on the
device, which it appears is rendering the drive invisible to the program
(Recover My Files) I am trying to use under Wine.  Running on Windows the
program can see and inspect and read the unmountable drive.  Equally the drive
is accessible to Linux (though not mountable), via the dd command as an example.

The question is, is there a way of making this device (/dev/sdc) visible to wine
without the luxury of mounting it, thus enabling "Recover My Files" to
see the drive in question and perform its low-level inspection and recovery
processes?

Thanks
Jamie

jsstevenson wrote:
> The question is, is there a way of making this device (/dev/sdc) visible to
wine without the luxury of mounting it, thus enabling "Recover My
Files" to see the drive in question and perform its low-level inspection
and recovery processes?

You can try this:

Code:
mkdir /tmp/c
ln -s /tmp/c ~/.wine/dosdevices/f:
ln -s /dev/sdc ~/.wine/dosdevices/f::



However I don't think you'll get far with it because Wine does not
support low level hdd access.

Thanks for the suggestion...

Unfortunately you seem to be right - the drive is still not accessible.  I might
have to install windows to deal with this one, which will be a bit of a pain!

Thanks again.
Jamie.

jsstevenson wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion...
> 
> Unfortunately you seem to be right - the drive is still not accessible.
Have you checked if you have access to that device? Usually only root can access
disk devices.

Yes I have been running the program as root...

gksu wine .<program_name.exe>

I notice when running the program (Recover My Files) using Wine that the
following information appears on the command line...:


Code:
~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/GetData/Recover My Files$ gksu wine
RecoverMyFiles.exe
fixme:mountmgr:harddisk_ioctl unsupported ioctl 560000
0000001): partial stub.
fixme:mountmgr:harddisk_ioctl unsupported ioctl 560000
fixme:mountmgr:harddisk_ioctl unsupported ioctl 560000
fixme:reg:RegSetKeySecurity :(0x68,4,0x3c5a50): stub
fixme:reg:GetNativeSystemInfo (0x33f254) using GetSystemInfo()
fixme:win:SetLayeredWindowAttributes (0x10030,0x00000000,255,2): stub!
fixme:ntdll:server_ioctl_file Unsupported ioctl 24000 (device=2 access=1 func=0
method=0)
fixme:ntdll:server_ioctl_file Unsupported ioctl 70000 (device=7 access=0 func=0
method=0)




I am assuming at the moment that it is getting a little upset with something it
is trying to mount... i.e. my unmountable /dev/sdc!

I will go and have a search around to see if I can find any info on these
messages.

jsstevenson wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion...
> 
> Unfortunately you seem to be right - the drive is still not accessible.  I
might have to install windows to deal with this one, which will be a bit of a
pain!
> 
> Thanks again.
> Jamie.

Did you tried native tools for this ?
I have used successfully photorec (which does not only recover pictures, but a
lot more like programs, music, ...) on an NTFS drive so crashed that even tools
under windows could not handle.

There is a tutorial here :
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntucat/recovering-windows-files-with-a-ubuntu-cd-iii-deleted-files/