Formatting and partitioning drive

Hi guys and galls...
I have a little problem and it is probably something so simple that I am missing
I got my daughter an MSI AIO for Christmas and it just came up that she has her C drive partition as a 68GB or whatever and the rest/majority of her drive is on the D drive, which I haven't ever seen happen on any other system. I want to make it where she has the majority of the space on her C drive as she is into graphics and needs it more on the C drive. I want to format it and rearrange the partitions..... but when I try and do this, it just wants to redo the same setup, it doesn't give me an option to get to the part where I choose which ones to format and make them do this.
Can someone please help with this?
This is a Windows 7 machine.

This issue has been discussed and argued for as long as there has been PCs with sizable hard drives. With the ease and flexibility of the Windows OS comes the ease and flexibility of creating one or many drives from one physical hard drive. While some applications might work better with a particular configuration, it really comes down to style and personal preference. Some computer makers seem to have a style. MSI is one of them. They build their systems with multiple partitions, as in this case a C: and D: drive, and usually a recovery partition with no drive letter. Personally, I prefer one large C: drive. Luckily with Windows 7 you can change that fairly easy with the built in drive tools.
This same argument has raged in the Android community too. Some Android 2.x systems had too small an applications partition which can't be easily expanded. This leads to annoyance when trying to get that new game installed on your phone and it won't fit!
I suggest being more tolerant of other's requirements that differ from yours.
Bye.
Quote from: bugmeuser on 29-August-11, 04:42:56
Do you even know what you're writing?
It's usual to split up a harddisk into various partitions and as the C: drive holds the system and programs, it's usually smaller than D: (E:, F:...) that holds your own data. If your daughter is into graphics, the only thing that helps is more RAM or a "swapdisk", which should better be on another harddrive.

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