How to force Visual Studio 2022 Setup to download and install everything on my D drive and not my System Drive C?

[GAMEBOYADVANCETEMPORARY]

Visual Studio 2022 Setup doesn't allow me to download and install Visual Studio at all.

Visual Studio 2022 Setup says that I need at least 27.31 GB free space in my System Drive C even after I configured Visual Studio 2022 Setup to download and install everything on my D drive in the "Installation locations" tab including Visual Studio IDE, Download cache and Shared components, tools, and SDKs.

And I don't know why Visual Studio 2022 Setup insists to download and install a lot of GBs in my System Drive C even after I configured Visual Studio Setup to download and install everything on my D drive.

I don't have much space in my System Drive C and the free space available there is insufficient to download and install Visual Studio 2022 even if Visual Studio 2022 Setup is configured to download and install everything on my D drive.

As a result Visual Studio 2022 Setup doesn't allow me to download and install Visual Studio at all.

Is there a way to force Visual Studio 2022 Setup to download and install everything on my D drive? And also check how much free space available in my D drive and not my C drive before download and installation?

I have free space of hundreds of GBs in my D drive and I want Visual Studio 2022 Setup to download and install everything there.

I thought about the idea to run Visual Studio 2022 Setup inside a virtual machine like Microsoft Hypervisor, Oracle VirtualBox or VMware but I afraid that Visual Studio IDE will run too slowly there.

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

There are various components in Visual Studio that can't be run off of any other drive except the system drive, according to this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/change-installation-locations?view=vs-2022 <

There are some tools and SDKs that have different rules on where they can be installed. Such tools and SDKs are installed on your system drive even if you choose another location.

So there's likely no way around it.

 

[GAMEBOYADVANCETEMPORARY]

There are various components in Visual Studio that can't be run off of any other drive except the system drive, according to this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/change-installation-locations?view=vs-2022 <



So there's likely no way around it.

Do you mean that if I will successfully force setup to download and install visual studio entirely in my D drive then visual studio won't work properly?