On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 8:56 AM, ss26 <wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > vitamin wrote: >> Any direct hardware access does not function on Wine with few exceptions. >> >> Wine does not care about what file system on a device. So none of the NTFS specific featurs are supported. > > Thank you, it seems this was not a good idea....... > It is a good idea because very few applications make use of rarely used (and not needed) ntfs features to make them work. Being skeptical, I believe the reason for the application doing this is just to prevent the application from running under wine. John