'How can I install Visual Studio to a removable drive?
My internal SSD is too small to hold Visual Studio, but the installer doesn't let me install VS into my removable drive.
Is there any way (or trick) to install it?
Solution 1:[1]
Very late to the problem, but leaving a comment in case anybody else is still stuck.
My laptop also has a very small internal SSD, and a much larger micro SD card, which lives permanently in the card reader.
I was able to use a symbolic link give Visual Studio the illusion that it is installing on the internal SSD, when the files are actually located on removable media. Naturally, read/write performance will suffer, but at least I can install Visual Studio without completely filling my system disk.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/mklink
From cmd (not powershell):
mklink /d "C:\Visual Studio\" "<removable drive letter>\Visual Studio\"
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