How to install Visual Studio 2015 on a different drive

Question

I'm trying to figure out how to install Visual Studio Community 2015 on another drive besides my C:\ drive. Every time I open the installer of VS it shows the save location but won't let me change it:

I'm wanting to change the download destination to my D:\ drive. If there is a work around could someone give me a hand? I've searched for about a few hours now, and I can't find anything relating to my issue.

Answer 1

Run the installer from command line with argument /CustomInstallPath InstallationDirectory

See more command-line parameters and other installation information.

Note: this won't change location of all files, but only of those which can be (by design) installed onto different location. Be warned that there is many shared components which will be installed into shared repositories on drive C: without any possibility to change their path (unless you do some hacking using mklink /j (directory junction, i.e."hard link for folder"), but it is questionable whether it is worth it, because any Visual Studio updates will break those hard links. This is confirmed by people who tried that, although on Visual Studio 2012.)

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Update: per recent comment, uninstallation of Visual Studio might be required before the above applies. Uninstallation command is like this: vs_community_ENU.exe /uninstall /force