wine users - Jan 2012 - chkdsk in wine

My external hard drive is formatted with NTFS. The linux support for NTFS is
fairly good nowadays, but there is not a complete replacement for chkdsk (as far
as I know).

So I was wondering: anyone could use chkdsk in wine? it is at least
theoretically possible?

I tried the obvious: I copied from an old WinXP cd the files chkdsk.exe, 
ifsutil.dll and ulib.dll. I symlinked the external drive in the dosdevices
directory and started wine chkdsk e:.

Unfortunately it stops with an error like: impossible to open volume for direct
access.

What can I try?

etwineb wrote:
> So I was wondering: anyone could use chkdsk in wine? it is at least
theoretically possible?
No and no. Wine does not access filesystems directly. But uses system (Linux in
your case) for that.

guessed so, but it was worth the try. thanks for clarifying.