Issues setting up partitions on new hard drive

[jdouglas25]

I just purchased the HD-GDU3 3 TB desktop hard drive.  I would like to partition the drive such that 2 TB is NTFS and 1 TB is FAT32 (to backup my wife's Mac).

I've started the process using a windows machine and now have a 2 TB NTFS partition and a 1 TB(actually slight less) unallocated partition.  I can't figure out how to turn that unallocated space into a legitimate partition and format it to FAT32.  When I select it in the Disk Management utility, all of the actions are disabled.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you.
Jeff

[davo]

Windows will not natively format a partition larger than 32GB to FAT32. Either use the format utility that can with the drive station or use the MAC to do it.