names of system partition

Can I reverse the sheet music for a clean install so that the partition/drive c:\ is NOT the system partition. On my Vaio, it is the partition musette and as everything by default installs on the C:\ drive, it has caused many space issues in spite of the process of installing programs on disk D:\. This is how the machine and it's very frustrating. None of my other computers have never been set up this way.

If you you reinstall windows on some of the recoveries, there will be an option to change the size of the C: drive. Otherwise you can specify the programs to be installed on the D: drive. Or use a 3rd party partitioning program to change the size or combine the partitions.

-Mike Sony Service & Support

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