How I partitioned my 500GB MyBook

During this ThanksGiving sale, I bought a 500 GB Western digital MyBook USB HDD. I wanted to use it for backup and I wanted to create specific partitions on it. The HDD came pre-formatted with FAT32 and I was looking for a good software which will help me create NTFS partition (Linux and Mac can read / write onto NTFS. so I made this choice) and format the drive. The free ones were not really friendly. I tried partlogic and it didnt recognize the USB drive at all. I have used partition magic earlier and its a very gud software but I didnt want to pay $70 for it. All this while, I was searching in google for a partition software. I thought of trying out something from wikipedia. voila! there was this entry on partition utilities and I navigated to western digital site to get Data Lifeguard tools. It was really easy to use this tool and I happily formatted and partitioned my USB drive for free :). If you are looking for a sw to partition your new drive, I would surely recommend Data Lifeguard tools. But please beware that it will format the drive in which you want the partitions.