Installing office 365 Home edition on a different hard drive than windows (C:\)

Hi everyone.
I recently got an invite from a familymember to install office 365, which is great.
What's not so great is that it is not possible to customize the installation and install office on a different drive than windows.
- I am using Windows 8.1 Pro.
I've done some searching on Google and have heard about a method called click-2-run, which is basically downloading files required to a directory of choice and installing these files. However I need to generate two different xml files to use this method.
I'm know how the xml files are run together with the setup.exe file, but have very limited information about how the syntax in the xml files work.
So my question is: How do I install Office 365 on a different partition than my C-drive?
I have an E-drive with loads of space in which I've made a folder called "Microsoft Office 2015" and placed the essential click-2-run files.
- download.xml
- configuration.xml
- setup.exe
What should these files contain for me to download and install Office 365 on my E-drive?
Best regards,
Zeliax

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