ok i have a windows cd and i am just wondering but could i use wine to install windows into the fake windows drive then be able to use all windows apps through wine. like could it use the windows drivers and such. then if it can how do i do this

No I don't think you can install operating system that way. You might want to use VMware for that purpose instead. But Wine can use native Windows DLLs anyway, you can use it's configuration file (system.reg or wine.conf or whatever it's called these days) to specify which DLL/system files should be used from Wine, which native ones; and where to find them.

Sorry, no. Wine Is Not an Emulator. Nor is it designed to duplicate everything Windows does. It's a compatibility layer that simulates just enough of the environment necessary to run programs designed for Windows platforms on *nix. And just as you can't run Windows on itself, you can't run it on wine either. You could, of course, mirror all the files to the fake-windows drive, but 90+ percent of them would be useless to wine.

Windows drivers likewise won't work because all wine does is sit between the program and the OS and translate windows system calls into Linux system calls. The drivers, on the other hand, generally work at a lower level, connecting the the OS to the hardware itself. You would need a separate wrapper system to sit there and translate that connection, like ndswrapper does.

You can, however, use native Windows .dll files in many cases, since wine provides the proper interfaces to allow those libraries to run. If your program chokes on the built-in .dll, a native one might work better. You can extract the .dlls from the Windows install disk using a cab decompressor (which exist on Linux), and put them in the system folder of your fake-windows. Then just use winecfg to tweak the settings for each program you run.

If you want full Windows compatibility, your only option right now is to use a true emulator or virtual machine and actually run Windows inside Linux. But if you only have a handful of applications to run, then then wine is usually the way to go (assuming the apps are supported, of course).

sorry i wasn't trying to type drivers earlier and i know that it is not an emulator it is in it's name W.I.N.E. W.ine I.s N.ot an E.mulator. all i'm wondering is if wine can extract the .dll's by itself and not me manualy doing it. like i want it to have a higher compatabilty level with the programs it is running so that it is more like the windows system running the program and not the open source .dll's