E:
drive. To give you a bit of context on my setup, I’ve got an SSD as a boot drive (C:
) and a specific drive (E:
) which I use to install all my programs. I find it helps me backing up my stuff, as well as “separating concerns”, since my boot drive is only used for… well booting ?E:
instead of C:
.C:
drive, even though I told it to only use my E:
drive.VS
“wants” to be installed, to the folder where “you” want to install it. This way, you “trick” the installer to think it’s being installed on the system drive, but is is in reality installing it to the drive you defined on your symlink.<letter>mydeeplynesteddirectory
.mklink /J 'C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0' 'E:Program Files (x86)Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0'
J
flag indicates you’re creating a directory junction (see more here)