Can't Format HD as Mac OS X Extended

I have a 60GB Toshiba drive that was an OEM Apple drive in my son's Macbook. I just upgraded his internal drive to a WD 320GB so I put the old drive in an external case to use as a portable drive. The drive worked fine in the Macbook. I want to wipe the drive and set a new, fresh partition but the drive won't format as Mac OS X Extended. The case I have is listed as a Mac compatible case altho I doubt that really matters.
Disk Utility will format the drive as a Master Boot Record and FAT32 or as a Apple Partition Map and Free Space drive but not a Mac OS X Extended. I even tried using Drive Genius but I get error messages saying the formatter failed.
Any idea what is going on?
Thanks.
David

Baltwo:
Sorry if I am not being clear. You are correct. The Format type is MS-DOS (FAT), not FAT32 although I believe that is the FAT style it results in. I'm surprised that you don't see a choice for Free Space. I have that listed for all three partition schemes, GUID, Apple Partition Map and Master Boot Record. I have all of the format options you listed below in addition to Free Space.
As far as step-by-step operations, I have connected my external USB drive and attempted to partition and format it in Disk Utility. I have selected 1 Partition and tried a partition scheme of GUID and Apple Partition Map. Both give the same results. I try to format the drive as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
When I click Apply, DU just runs forever and never formats the drive. I know from past experience that a partition take about a minute so there is obviously something wrong. The only way I can stop DU is to unplug the drive at which point I get a box saying Format Failed. Permission denied.
If I use DU to format the disk as Master Boot Record and select MS-DOS as the format type, DU formats it fine. I've tried just about every other combination and DU either hangs or returns the error message, Format Failed: permission Denied.
Hope this helps.
Thanks,
David

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