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Visual Studio can be installed on any drive, once installed you should go under tools, options and check environment paths as default paths for projects is under C:\Users...
Visual Studio 2022 install on other drive
Cenk
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Hi guys,
I am working on Windows 10 Enterprise 20H2 laptop. I have 2 drives, C and T. I am running out of space for installing VS 2022 on drive C (10 GB free space) so I wonder if I can install VS 2022 on drive T (50 GB free space) and use it without any problems?
Thank you.
Developer technologies | Visual Studio | Setup
Developer technologies | C#
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Tianyu Sun-MSFT 34,441 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff2022-05-04T09:09:15.36+00:00 Hi @Cenk , may I ask, if this issue has been resolved? Feel free to let us know if you have any other concern.
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Karen Payne MVP 35,586 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator2022-04-19T11:27:26.83+00:00 -
Cenk 1,036 Reputation points
2022-04-19T11:59:17.387+00:00 Thank you @Karen Payne MVP , I will try and let you know.
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Cenk 1,036 Reputation points
2022-04-19T12:53:55.247+00:00 Trying to install shared/SDK under C drive program files, how can I change it?
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Cenk 1,036 Reputation points
2022-04-19T14:10:06.14+00:00 I think I can't totally install to another drive, the installer doesn't give a choice for shared/SDK other than drive C which means about 7-8 GB of space.
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Karen Payne MVP 35,586 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
2022-04-20T01:53:25.697+00:00 See the following
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Tianyu Sun-MSFT 34,441 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
2022-04-20T06:14:40.753+00:00 Hi @Cenk , just as a tip, the
Shared components, tools, and SDKspath is not easy to change if you’ve installed VS on your machine before. See this doc: Select installation locations. Other similar threads: change installation path of Shared components, tools and SDKs, Unable to find fallback package folder for you to refer to.Regards,
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Cenk 1,036 Reputation points
2022-04-20T10:55:52.66+00:00 Yes I have VS 2019 on my C drive. I will check the links.
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Brad Hobson 10 Reputation points2023-06-22T18:00:53.6433333+00:00 I have done this as well as the C: was near full so installed on D drive. This has led to a nightmare of using ADO though. It looks for $(VSToolsPath) - "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v17.0" but this is installed in D:. I cannot find any good information on Google or Microsoft boards to speak to how to change the $(VSToolsPath) to point to the D:.
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Reginaldo Villela 1 Reputation point2022-04-20T03:28:12.807+00:00 Hi @Cenk
When installing, see the configuration:
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I hope this helps you.Best Regards.
Reginaldo Villela
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Swapnil Popat 6 Reputation points2022-10-26T06:17:56.567+00:00 Still it asks for System Drive Space of 5 GB.
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Cristian Macovei 0 Reputation points2023-05-27T11:57:22+00:00 Exactly, you chose where to install, but your choices are useless.. still asking for space on drive C.. >.<
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Bryan Alexander Arce Muñoz 0 Reputation points2023-11-13T21:56:47.23+00:00 @Cristian Macovei after doing the changes in regedit you'll need to restart the computer at least but I mean, for me it work just closing and opening again the installation program.
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Cenk 1,036 Reputation points
2022-05-04T10:11:42.7+00:00 I did install VS 2022 onto my drive T, but as I told you before I already installed VS 2019 on my drive C so some shared components, SKD etc ate up from drive C.
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Tianyu Sun-MSFT 34,441 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
2022-05-10T09:45:10.68+00:00 Hi @Cenk , so changing the registry key
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Setup>SharedInstallationPathstill doesn’t work?
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