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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?
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The \Microsoft\VisualStudio\Shared directory is where Visual Studio stores the files that are shared by side-by-side Visual Studio installations. SDKs and tools are also stored in this directory.
Normally, the path is something like C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\ . From Visual Studio, one can use $(VCInstallDir)$ to get this path.
Deleting the Visual Studio Installer files and then rerunning the bootstrapper solves some update failures. Performing the following actions reinstalls the Visual Studio Installer files and resets the installation metadata. Close the Visual Studio Installer. Delete the Visual Studio Installer installation directory.
Open the registry, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Setup and there you will find some files. At least one of these files should contain the old path. Delete the file and the installation should work now. This was the only answer that actually made sense and worked for me, at least with VS 2019.
Specify the folder path, including the drive, where you want to store the installation files and manifests from the download cache. You can select a different location only when you first install Visual Studio. If you've already installed it and want to change the location, you must uninstall Visual Studio and then reinstall it.
Here's how. When you install Visual Studio, choose the Installation locations tab. In the Visual Studio IDE section, accept the default. Visual Studio installs the core product and includes files that are specific to this version of Visual Studio.
If you've installed Visual Studio on your computer before, you won't be able to change the Shared components, tools, and SDKs path and it will appear greyed out. Sometimes, things can go wrong. If your Visual Studio installation fails, see Troubleshoot Visual Studio installation and upgrade issues for step-by-step guidance.
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
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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.
Setup.ForcedUninstall.exe in an administrator command promptIf 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.
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