http://geekswithblogs.net/jreis/Default.aspx Jason Reis http://geekswithblogs.net/jreis/Default.aspx Subtext 2009-11-20T21:05:02Z http://geekswithblogs.net/jreis/archive/2009/11/20/136447.aspx 2009-11-20T21:05:02-06:00:00 2009-11-20T21:05:02Z <p>I use Boot Camp on my MacBook Pro to run Windows 7.  Last night I thought I would try installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2.  Sadly, the install kept failing with an "access denied" error.  I was determined to figure it out.  I ran Process Monitor to see what was going on and looked at some of the log files it was writing to.  One of them said it found drive E: to have the most space, but failed when it attempted to write to it.  Drive E: was my OS X partition.  So, I fired up disk manager in Windows 7 (diskmgmt.msc) and clicked the Remove button on the Change Drive Letter dialog box.  After removing the E: drive from Windows, I tried installing VS2010 again, and it worked perfectly.  Here's to being persistent.</p> <p>I hope this helps someone out there.</p><img src="http://geekswithblogs.net/jreis/aggbug/136447.aspx" width="1" height="1" /> http://geekswithblogs.net/jreis/comments/136447.aspx 2 http://geekswithblogs.net/jreis/comments/commentRss/136447.aspx http://geekswithblogs.net/jreis/services/trackbacks/136447.aspx