How to install Vs BuildTools on D drive?

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Hi there, my question may seems pretty stupid I really can not find the help. Look, I have two drives and Windows choose the C one as a main one. So I downloaded vs_BuildTools.exe form the official Microsoft website, installed it and now it is stored on Program Files (x86)....at least I think so. So I typed cargo build and got this message:
error: linker link.exe not found
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= note: program not found

note: the msvc targets depend on the msvc linker but link.exe was not found

note: please ensure that VS 2013, VS 2015, VS 2017, VS 2019 or VS 2022 was installed with the Visual C++ option

Also, rustup-init.exe showed me this message:
Rust requires the Microsoft C++ build tools for Visual Studio 2013 or
later, but they don't seem to be installed.

I don't know what am I doing wrong..... When I was installing Rust on Linux it was so much easier...

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Do you have the right components added. You will need the MSVC build tools and the Windows 10 SDK. Here is a screenshot from the Visual Studio 2022 installer that shows the necessary components. Specifically look under the "optional" components to make sure you have at least these two:

vsbuild
vsbuild1252×650 66.4 KB

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It would be funny to count beginner-s percentage started witch that error message.. 100? or 99%

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Thank you so much for your response!

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If you completely uninstal Visual Studio and are willing to wait a few more hours, then the new version of rustup will offer to auto-install the necessary bits and pieces.

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