My "C:" is at "~/.wine/dosdevices/" but is a link to "~/.wine/drive_c/". I have completely deleted my .wine folder several times and tried multiple different times. You can see in the first part of my provided logs it says: Code: ine: created the configuration directory '/home/user/.wine' I don't think creating the "~/.wine/harddiskvolume0" makes much of a difference, but the only reason I think that is because I read it in a comment in winetricks in the load_vcrun2008sp1 function: Code: load_vcrun2008sp1() { # This should be fixed in recent Wine, but for those using 1.0.1, fails. volnum # Load the Visual C++ 2008 SP1 runtime libraries # See http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=a5c84275-3b97-4ab7-a40d-3802b2af5fc2 download vcrun2008sp1 http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/d/9/dd9a82d0-52ef-40db-8dab-795376989c03/vcredist_x86.exe 6939100e397cef26ec22e95e53fcd9fc979b7bc9 try $WINE "$WINETRICKS_CACHE"/vcrun2008sp1/vcredist_x86.exe $WINETRICKS_QUIET } Using winetricks doesn't work anyway. It gives the same error.