Error message "file system formatter failed"
I just bought a MyBook 1TB external drive to use as a vault for Aperture. It comes formatted FAT32, however, it appears you can't use FAT32 for vaults. So I have tried to reformat it to MacOS extended, and MacOS extended journaled, however it fails after a few seconds with the message "File system formatter failed".
I am using Leopard, iMac20", 2.33ghz intel core 2 duo, 2gbRam. Any ideas , or is there some other third party software I could try?
thanks
Mac OS X (10.4.8)