I just found out after doing some disk cleanup on my Sony VIAO that the drives are somehow switched. My C: drive has very little on it and it's the 60GB drive (partition). The D: drive has everything on it (Windows, Program Files, etc.), but it's the 7GB drive (partition). I do not know what happened to have caused this, or when. Any ideas as to get either the drives renamed/swapped or whatever would be greatly appreciated.

You can't change the drive letter of the OS partition. Did you partition the hard drive into two partitions like you are seeing? Do you currently have a USB flash drive connected to your computer?

I inherited the computer from my father, who bought it from Best Buy many years ago. He would not have been the one that "partitioned" anything . . . he would not be capable of anything like that since he is not computer savy. The computer is being used by my 13-year old in his room, and it is networked with the host computer via cabled router. And, no, there is no USB flash drive hooked up.

Then it sounds like somehow you have unhidden the hidden restore partition that came from the factory. Did you perform a system restore or repair?

I may have many months ago after inheriting the computer, but not recently. Any ideas how to get things back to normal? Hopefully it won't entail creating recovery disks and reformatting. I'm all ears.

First thing you need to do is to determine what you are working with. Programs don't move themselves from one partition to another. Check to see if you have TWO listings for Windows and installed programs. Then see if the programs actually work. Also, go to Disk Management and see what the capacity and free space is on each partition. You also need to post back what type of partition each one is.

C: Primary; partition/basic/NTFS/Healthy (System) - 14.9GB with free space of 2.7GB D: Extended/Logical; partition/basic/NTFS/Healthy - 59.6GB with free space of 59.2GB No, there is only one Windows and one file of Program Files, which all work, however slowly.