Create a virutalenv on another drive - Access is denied
<p>When trying to create a virtual env on my main drive (C:\) it works fine, but on my second disk (E:\) I get a error saying: </p>

<blockquote>
  <p>ERROR: The executable "E:\path\env\Scripts\python.exe" could not be
  run: [WinError 5] Access is denied.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>The command I'm using is:</p>

<blockquote>
  <p>C:\WINDOWS\system32>virtualenv "E:\path to project\env"</p>
  
  <p>Or</p>
  
  <p>E:\path to project>virtualenv env</p>
</blockquote>

<p>It does create the folder, but it looks like when it's trying to run python to install all of the requirement for the virtualenv it fails.</p>

<p>I'm using python 3.5 which is installed at its default location on C:\.</p>

<ul>
<li>I tried using another version (3.4).</li>
<li>run the command as an administrator.</li>
<li>making a symbolic link and create the env from there.</li>
<li>run the command from c:\</li>
</ul>

<p>Nothing seems to work.</p>

<p>I'm kind of out of ideas. Those anybody have the same problem or a solution?
It's kind of annoying having to work on my c:\ as it's almost out of space.</p>