I have a few questions about XNA. I get this error every time I try to start a new project that says "The location specified cannot be created. Check that the location is not a reserved system name, and that the disk is writable and that there is enough room on this disc." What does this mean? Does it mean I don't have enough room on my hard drive? I don't think thats the case because I many giga bytes of hard drive space left. Also, XNA 2.0 does not support Microsoft Visual studio 2008 right? And if I do install Visual Studio 08 and its not supported, will it overwrite Visual Studio 05? Thanks in advance!

You can use VS 2005 and 2008 simultaneous. So nothing will be overwritten. I have them both and didn't have any troubles.

What the exact meaning of the error is i don't know. But when you create a new project in the new project form you specify what the location will be. Default i believe it's C:\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Projects

What path do you have for the location? And is it a valid location?

And remember that VS creates a directory for the solution name as well when you have that checkbox checked in the new project form.

Ok, I understand what you are trying to say, but how do I check the directory, as my XNA save is on the E drive?

Well, what is the location when you start the new project?

Looks to me that the error what you get is all about the directory that VS wants to save it to.

 

So if VS wants to save it to your E-drive, what's the directory it want's to save it to? And can you browse to that directory? I mean if the direcotory is for example E:\Projects\My Game\ is that available on you drive?

 

Saving the solution is all about directory stucture and if you can browse to a directory in the explorer then VS should be able to save a solution to that place...

Be careful of those network drives, I was trying to create a project folder on my network drive at school and was getting a whole bunch of cryptic errors about not being able to run the project.  To correct the problem I am running the projects that I am working out of off my default "~\My Documents\Visual Studio 2005" folder.