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There is a question on Visual Studio 2012 and although it provided me with the hint it does not answer the same question for VS 2013.

Since I don't have enough reputation to answer in that question but have a working answer for VS 2013, I'm going to ask and respond.

Here is the background: I had my VS 2013 installed on drive E: One unlucky day the drive crashed and I had to replace it. While waiting for the replacement I decided to install it on another drive and the installer stubbornly locked me to the non-existing drive E:

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Here comes the answer. You need to delete a specific registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\\Components\14E90E656B1278F4D80670780D82CEDD

The easiest way to find it is to run this Powershell script found here (again, replace S-1-5-18 with YOUR user id):

$searchText = "Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0" cd hklm: cd \SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18 gci . -rec -ea SilentlyContinue | % { if((get-itemproperty -Path $_.PsPath) -match $searchText) { if ( $_.ValueCount -gt 3 ) { "Found:" + $_.PsPath get-itemproperty -Path $_.PsPath } } }

The key you're looking for is the one that lists the root installation path of Visual Studio, for example: C0601145C8F8D393D8B362FAC229AFBB : E:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\ ABD739EADFEFEFB3890650190C9FD116 : E:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\ 471A0A6B0E3324D329AE45D713C81B94 : E:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\

To my understanding, this will work for VS 2015 also (the key is CACBC777BA2175A47A35A4D7324B483D).

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