A couple of months back, most probably in November last year, I had to install Microsoft Visual Studio on a drive(D) other than C because my C drive did not have enough space to host the software. Two weeks ago I cleaned up my C drive and now I want to move the Visual Studio installation to the C drive because the C drive is located on an SSD drive, and the other drives are on HDD.
The Microsoft Official Document reference says that I have to reinstall my Visual Studio. But always there are some exceptional experiences for the users other than the official documentation statements.
One very important cause for my avoiding this reinstallation is, that I live in such a corner of the globe where 30GB will take me like 3 to 4 days to download. Moreover, it will also hamper regular tasks and the custom settings and tweaks I have applied to my development environment.
That's why I am writing this to avail community help if anyone has ever experienced such an issue and solved it anyhow.
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When I try to install VS2017 Community, SDK location is set in D drive, which is my external HDD drive. I want to install this in my other SSD drive(not C drive) but install location is always unchangable. Dont know how to solve this. Try to force delete, CMD, and uninstall-reinstall over and over. Need serious help.
I will be getting another pc where drive C: will be SSD and the rest of the drives HDD. The SSD size is significantly smaller so I don't want it to get full from just codes and Visual Studio stuff.
I came across this guide:
http://www.placona.co.uk/1196/dotnet/installing-visual-studio-on-a-different-drive/
but at the bottom, it says that it's not a permanent solution because updates will still get installed in drive C:
I haven't tried this yet but:
does the latest version of visual studio allow you to install on another drive?
would it be better if I create a VM (on another drive) then install Visual Studio there? any downside on developing while in a VM?
I'm using HP ProBook 4520s and I'm trying to install Visual Studio Professional 2013 on Windows 7. I have not advanced my installation because I reached a window that says, "Setup requires up to 10GB across all drives."
In My Computer I have:
Local Disk (C:) 109 GB free,
HP_TOOLS (F:) 1.48 GB free of 1.98 GB,
and Paging Partition (K:) 12.1 GB free of 14.9 GB.
I assume that if I go ahead with the installation that not all components will install correctly due to the F: drive and the Paging Partition having limited space(it says 12.1GB are free, but maybe in reality 9.99?). So what solutions are available so I can install VS 2013 on my PC? Maybe this?
It does not mean you need that space on each drive. That would be stupid. It means it needs that space once and probably some of it on the drive you install too and some of it on your system drive.
Go ahead and install it.
In your case it will install everything on C: and won't use any space on the other drives.
The warning is aimed at users who want to install to a non-system drive, (ie not the C: drive). In those cases it will install some data to the C: drive and some data to the drive that was selected for installation.
The same seems to apply for Visual Studio 2015 too.
I am trying to install VS2008 sp1 to my work machine - it has a pathetic 10Gb C drive. The SP1 bootstrapper doesn't give the option to install items to D, only C. It needs 3Gb free and the machine only has about 700Mb.
VS allowed me to install to D originally why not the SP. The only thing I can think of that it requires system files installed in Windows etc, but I can't believe there are 3Gb worth of system files?
Worth a read:
http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2008/07/24/why-windows-installer-may-require-so-much-disk-space.aspx
I was faced with the same problem, and ended up moving my Outlook archive.pst and the windows.edb (the new live search index file) over to D: to make room instead of trying to cram a square peg into a round hole with SP1 splitting drives. A huge help in this regard is WinDirStat, which scans a drive of your choice and identifies the size of every folder and file so that you can reveal some random large entities and move them if you can.
If you have an empty partition, you can try to create a mounted drive (i.e. map the partition to an empty folder on the C: drive) and see whether the SP1 bootstrapper will be able to use it.
I also ran into the same problem on a server that only has 20gb on the C: drive. I found a way to free up enough space to get the job done by reassigned the system's virtual memory allocation to use D: drive instead of C:. This freed up about 4gb in my case.
On Windows XP the place to set this is in My Computer system properties, Advanced tab, Performance Options:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308417
I had the same problem with VS2008 installed on a C: drive that was only 12Gb in size.
I uninstalled VS2008 completely by following the manual steps in this page,
and then by using the auto-uninstaller:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/bb968856.aspx
I then rebooted the machine.
I then re-installed VS2008 on the E: drive.
I then rebooted the machine.
I was then able to install SP1 - as now it did not need quite as much space on C: drive.
When you say "10Gb C drive", do you mean it's a 10-gig disk or a partition? If the former, you should really be looking at replacing the drive - it's old, and I'd be starting to worry about how much longer it has to live.
If the latter, then assuming that the C: drive restriction can't easily be worked around, then I'd look at increasing the size of the C: partition. Depending on how full the remainder of the drive is, this can take a while. I'd also be considering spending some tens of dollars ($40 or $50, I'd guess) on a partition manager from someone such as Acronis or Paragon. Kick it off just before you finish work for the day - it may take several hours, especially if the disk's fairly full.
Are you in place upgrading your current version or have you uninstalled VS 2008 Gold? By default, the installer won't let you change the directory if any existing versions of VS are installed.
To move the installation, you will need to uninstall all editions of 2008 you have installed (including any Express Editions) and then the choose installation location option should enable.
I vaguely recall having this happen to me when I had Office 2007 installed first before VS 2008. I don't remember what options that I had installed for Office 2007.
Update: I remember now it had to do with the fact that I had Visual Studio Tools for Office already installed. When I upgraded my computer I did a clean install of everything without problems by installing VS 2008 before installing Office 2007 and VSTO. So most likely you have to uninstall whatever is causing VS 2008 to want to go to a specific drive.
Even if you do get it to switch drives it still is going to put a lot of stuff on the system drive.
You could also download the full VS2008 SP1 ISO image from here.
Then you can either burn it to DVD or use a tool such as Virtual CD-ROM Control Panel from Microsoft to mount the ISO as another drive.
After mounting the ISO as a virtual drive, you can run the SP1 install from there.