Vista - Limited on 2nd partition size when I repartition a 300 gig boot dr

I have Vista Home Premium with Athlonn 64 4200+ processor and 300 gig hard
drive. I wanted to split the hard drive into 3 partitions of 100 gigs each.
But using the partition manager program in Vista limited me to just a second
partition of 80 gigs. Why? I defragged; deleted all system restore points
and cancelled any more being made, etc. It did not make any difference. CAn
I get around this problem somehow?
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Karl

In news:1565F894-47E0-42CE-9F33-C7AAD7C54F7A@microsoft.com,
Karl <kwhiz_01@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I have Vista Home Premium with Athlonn 64 4200+ processor and
> 300 gig
> hard drive. I wanted to split the hard drive into 3
> partitions of
> 100 gigs each. But using the partition manager program in
> Vista
> limited me to just a second partition of 80 gigs. Why? I
> defragged;
> deleted all system restore points and cancelled any more
> being made,
> etc. It did not make any difference. CAn I get around this
> problem
> somehow?

A hard drive labeled as having a capacity of 300 GB really
means it has storage capacity of 300 billion bytes. Windows
translates that to slightly less than 280 GBs.

Take a look at these articles for more info;

Why is my drive displaying a smaller than expected capacity
than the indicated size on the drive label?
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc....i=&p_topview=1

The Hard Drive Size Discrepancy: When a Byte Isn't a Byte
http://personal-computer-tutor.com/abc3/v30/vic30.htm

Good luck

Nepatsfan