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Why is Visual Studio installed on multiple drives?

I am installing Visual Studio 2008 on a new machine (yes, old-fashioned, I know, but I want to do it), and the installer seems to have decided to write data to TWO of the three hard drives connected to my system. No matter what options I choose, he always tells me that some disk space is needed on C (my primary drive) and X (my backup drive). I only need what is written in C. Here is an illustration:

Visual Studio 2008 setup

It always requires some space on my volume X. Why? Is there a way to get it to install only C? I suppose I can physically disable all non-C drives, but does anyone know why VS2008 is so configured to write to multiple drives?

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I think the answer was a Visual Studio 2008 installer who wanted to put his MSOCache directory on my X-drive. The installer seemed to be tied to the idea of ​​not using my C drive for this directory; even when I unplugged my X drive, he started saying that he wanted to use some space on my Z drive instead.

In the end, I made him use my C drive for everything, disconnecting all drives except C drive during the installation of Visual Studio 2008.

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