VS 2003: Not enough disk space solutions?

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VS 2003: Not enough disk space solutions?

My coworker is finally moving from VC6, but only has a 2GB C partition.  There's not enough room for the prerequisites, such as the .NET framework.  I tried changing the default Common and Program Files directories to another drive, via Regedit, but the setup program is still trying to place stuff on C:.

Other than reinstalling his OS with a far larger C:, is there anything else I can try

Thanks

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VS 2003: Not enough disk space solutions?

  • Sachin1979

    FWIW lots of people have historically created small c partitions and installed all of their apps on a data drive with a whole lot more room... It is a common way of separating data and the system for backup and organizational purposes... A practice made much more popular due to various bugs that would cause windows to freak out and not boot if some of the boot files were not placed within the first 8 gigs of the boot drive.  I for one don't have enough room on my C: drive on any computers I have access to install 1 gig of applications on the system drive.  IMHO it's BS for visual studio to require such an arrangement and I hope that MS takes this seriously and fixes it before the release as I guarantee there are TONS of folks out there with the same problem.

  • DrBob

    Sorry, I don't think you have an alternative here.
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