Can't see partition option or button on Disk Utility

I just bought a 500G backup hard drive for 2 computers. I want to partition it into separate portions for each computer and possibly a third smaller portion for my portable drive.
My problem is that using Disk Utility v10.5.6 running on OS 10.4.9 I cannot anywhere see a button or pulldown menu item that will allow me to create partitions as directed in the Disk Utility help files. I've searched for information in apple.com and can only find articles identical to what I see in my help file. Am I missing something obvious? I know about partitioning, but have never actually done it before.
btw- my external backup drive is "My Book" with Retrospect 6.1 software. However I haven't started up the software to do a backup yet because I wanted to partition the disk first. Any ideas, help, advice?!?!?
This is my first use of this forum. Must I visit the webpage often, or will the replies post to my email address as well as this webpage? Thanks! dsimmonsusc
iMac G5 and iMac24" intel duo Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Hi dsimmonsusc
Welcome to the forums!
For your first question, does the hard drive appear at all in the left hand pane of Disk Utility? Make sure you select the top level of the hard drive, and not any existing partitions inside it. For example, on my Powerbook, I see the following:
55.9 GB HTS72606M9 ...
Macintosh HD
I have to select the "55.9GB..." level to see the Partition tab, which will appear between "Erase" and "RAID" in the right-hand pane. It sounds like "My Book" will be the equiivalent of "Macintosh HD", so you need to select the level above that.
About forum replies, you can set the preference yourself - go to My Settings in the sidebar to the right, scroll to the bottom, and you should see the default settings - "Always subscribe to topics I create" and "Send subsccription emails immediately". Change these if you like, but as they are, you'll get a new email whenever someone responds (like this one)! But you will have to click the link in the email and go to the site to view the reply.
Matt

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