Error - There is not enough space on the disk

Applies to: Visual Studio 2015

Symptoms

When you try to install Microsoft Visual Studio, you receive the following error message:

There is not enough space on the disk.

Resolution

Before you install Visual Studio, make sure that you have the required amount of space to be able to download the latest Visual Studio program or components.

Even if you want to install Visual Studio to a drive other than the system drive, you still must have sufficient space on the system drive for the installation because some components will be installed there. To avoid this error, we recommend that you first determine the space that will be required to install the components that you want. Depending on how many workloads or components you want to install, this can effect the size of Visual Studio. We find that most users download 75 percent of the workloads so you need to have that much free space if you want to downland all of the components. To conserve space, select only the packages and components that you require during the initial installation.