MSBUILD Tools error with npm install

I am trying to run

npm install

npm install

on an Angular app. The earliest error with any useful information is:

MSBUILD : error MSB4132: The tools version "2.0" is unrecognized. Available tools versions are "4.0"

Then there is a long and detailed list of errors from

npm gyp

npm gyp

, the first in which MSBUILD is mentioned is:

gyp info spawn C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\msbuild.exe

Then

gyp info spawn args 'build/binding.sln'

and then

gyp ERR! stack Error:

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\msbuild.exe

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\msbuild.exe

failed with exit code: 1

I have tried running

npm install --global --production windows-build-tools

npm install --global --production windows-build-tools

as advised by a colleague and StackOverflow but that command just hangs. I understand it's a large package to download but it hung for 4 or 5 hours. Then I tried

choco install vcbuildtools

choco install vcbuildtools

but that exits with a "Generic MSI Error". What more can I do to solve or at least diagnose this error?

MSBUILD Tools error with npm install

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