How to install Visual Studio 2013 on another drive?

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Max Maximov2015-03-25 19:43:13

System administration

Max Maximov, 2015-03-25 19:43:13

Hello.
There is a laptop with SSD (22 Gb) and HDD (450 Gb). The SSD is running Windows 8.1 Update 3 x64. Free approximately 5.88 Gb. I'm trying to install Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 from a mounted image, which, of course, lies on another disk. In the installer, I specify the HDD, and it says that the installation requires 10 Gb ON ALL disks. Everything that could be deleted - I deleted, from the system backup to the swap files.
I've looked through all the forums on the net, but I haven't found anything useful. There is only a topic on the official forum, a person with the same problem.
In the last post, a member suggested a solution to the problem via Symlinks.
Hence I have 2 questions:
1. How to solve this problem?
2. How to use Symlinks without damaging Windows system files?
Thanks to.

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Max Maksimov, 2015-04-27
@maximka19

Disabled swap file for disk. Booted from LiveCD, deleted all .sys files related to swap and hibernation. Then I went to Program Files, deleted all Metro programs there (C:\Program Files\WindowsApps). And I walked through% appdata%, also cleaned out the garbage. Then I turned on the "data compression to save space" function, applied it to all objects. Enough space has been freed up to install VS 2013.4. There is still 3 GB of free space left after installation.

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Espleth, 2015-03-25
@Espleth

As far as I know, the studio spreads throughout the system, and you just can’t do everything.
IMHO the best option is to buy at least a 120GB SSD