Install VSTS 2005 SP1 to another drive

I have several hundred GB of storage on a secondary hard drive E:. However on C:, I only have 800 MB of free space. Anyway, my VSTS 2005 is on my E:. I've downloaded the VSTS 2005 SP1 onto my E:. However when I go to install it, it consumes C: space until I get an error during the install indicating that there is no more space. Does VSTS 2005 SP1 have to extract to C: first? How do I set it up so that VSTS 2005 SP1 extracts and installs to E: where my VSTS 2005 is installed?

[486 byte] By [nathanshih] at [2008-1-3]

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I am in about the same situation. I've managed to get C: up to about 1.2Gb free, but it still will not work. I even tried running it from the commandline using the silent switches. It still say that there is not enough space. I hope we get an answer to this one!

-Steve

sdneel at 2007-9-25 >

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# 2

Have you managed to get the SP to install yet? I'm still having problems getting it to work!

sdneel at 2007-9-25 >

# 3

Yes but unfortunately I couldn't figure out how to install it with the C: less than 1 GB of free space. I eventually had to install it on another machine. It has several GBs of free space on the C:. I don't think its possible to install it unless C: has several GBs of free space. To what amount exactly I don't know.

nathanshih at 2007-9-25 >

# 4

Heath Stewart has a blog post about VS 2005 SP1 disk space usage.

http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/2006/10/06/VS-2005-SP1-Requires-a-lot-of-Disk-Space.aspx

Does this help?

Thanks,

Chris

ChrisKing[MSFT] at 2007-9-25 >

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