Visual studio installation path grayed out

Question

I had to reformat one of my drives (T:) and change its purpose. I had Visual studio 2015 installed on it, uninstalled it before formatting and now the drive has a different letter (can't change it, other things installed on it). I want to install visual studio 2015 again, but on the C: drive. When I run the installation, I get this:

The T: drive doesn't exist anymore, and I can't change the installation path to another drive.

I tried some solutions where I had to delete registry keys, but didn't succeed since most of the solutions were for older versions of visual studio. Is there a way to change the path?

Answer 1

Run installer in command line (Admin Mode) In folder keep File vs_community_ENU.exe

and put this command

vs_community_ENU.exe /uninstall /force 

Then put this

vs_community_ENU /CustomInstallPath C:\VisualStudio2015 

NewDrive:\VisualStudio2015

it work for me

Hope this helps

Answer 2

I had the same problem. I had an installed Visual Studio on a crashed harddisk. I tried everything above, nothing worked. You should use this method as ultima ratio:

There is a VisualStudioUninstaller by Microsoft.

1. Download it
2. Extract it
3. Run it with Setup.ForcedUninstall.exe in an administrator command prompt

If this fails: Start an elevated powershell:

install-package msi -provider PowerShellGet get-msicomponentinfo '{777CBCAC-12AB-4A57-A753-4A7D23B484D3}' | get-msiproductinfo | uninstall-msiproduct -properties IGNOREDEPENDENCIES=ALL 

Try again. If this fails, replace the GUID with one of the following:

Visual Studio 2015: {777CBCAC-12AB-4A57-A753-4A7D23B484D3}
Visual Studio 2013: {56E09E41-21B6-4F87-8D60-0787D028ECDD}
Visual Studio 2012: {DB786F13-64A8-45D7-8C03-0E819DF9F7B3}
Visual Studio 2010: {01696F98-947C-4CF9-8BD3-ABE70332FDED}

Sources: blogs.msdn.microsoft.com and landinghub.visualstudio.com

If this fails get an exorcist or/and reinstall your system.