Wine directory structure used in Fedora Core Linux: =================================================== \${HOME}/.wine/drive_c is the root directory (aka C: drive) wine looks for by default. It is created with (empty) C:\windows and C:\windows\system directories, needed to operate Wine without an existing Windows installation, if it doesn't already exists. If you want to use Wine with an existing Windows installation that is mounted, for example, in /mnt/windows-c, change the symlink \${HOME}/.wine/dosdevices/c: to point to /mnt/windows-c instead of the defaults set by installation. If you do this, you can safely remove \${HOME}/.wine/drive_c. (Alternatively, just mount your Windows partition to \${HOME}/.wine/drive_c.)