I’m installing Visual Studio 2008 onto a new machine (yeah yeah, old-fashioned I know but I want to do it) and the installer seems determined to write data to TWO of the three hard drives attached to my system. No matter what options I choose, it always tells me that some drive space is needed on C (my main drive) and X (my backup drive). I only want stuff written to C. Here’s an illustration:
It always requires some space on my X volume. Why? Is there any way to force it to install to just C? I guess I could physically disconnect all drives other than C, but does anyone know why VS2008 is so determined to write to more than one drive?
I think the answer was the Visual Studio 2008 installer wanted to put its MSOCache directory on my X drive. The installer seemed wedded to the idea of not using my C drive for this directory; even when I disconnected my X drive, it then started saying it wanted to use some space on my Z drive instead!!!
In the end, I forced it to use my C drive for everything by disconnecting all drives except the C drive during the Visual Studio 2008 installation.