Hard Drive Format Problem

I wanted to move my Aperture Library to an external Hard Drive but when I select it it tells me it has an unsupported file system. My iPhoto Library happily resides on a HD with the same file system so I did not expect this problem.
The HDD is a Samsung S2 Portable USB 640GB HDD. If I try to format it as Mac OS Extended whether journaled or not, Disk Utility fails to format these HDD but it is able to format them as MS-DOS (Fat). This is not a problem for iPhoto but Aperture will not accept it.
Any suggestions as to how I can make this work either by forcing the HDD to accept Mac OS Extended or by forcing Aperture to accept the Fat 32 file structure? Having bought two of the HDD I cannot afford now to buy any more. I needed the HDD to be a 2.5inch portable so that I can take it with me as I travel and my MacBook Pro HDD is too small for the job at 320 and has less than 100GB of free space even 500 would be too small)

I may not have formatted hundreds but certainly a couple of dozen, although I have always had more than one partition. These HDD are ultra small even for 2.5inch HDD. I had two of them which iPhoto accepted as FAT32 for iPhoto Library and back up so bought two to work with Aperture but Aperture will not support anything other than Mac OS Extended. So the fault if any, could also be said to be Apple's since Apple software normally works fine with FAT 32 formatted hard drives. Whatever is going on it is annoying.
These are the Samsung HDD in question:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152200
The customer reviews tend to happy with performance but complain unreasonably about getting 'only 596GB' when they paid for 640 which is an indication that a lot of people still get confused about disk capacity conventions.

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