Cannot format...Help !

Hi everyone,
I purchased an external Western Digital Green 1TB My Book which I plugged via FireWire 400. I tried formating it several times within Leopard 10.5.5's Disk Utility to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and renaming the HDD but I keep getting Errors. It won't work and I don't understand why? I have done it before successfully with another HDD of the same brand. I am wondering if the new "Green" technology from Western Digital is the culprit. Has anyone had similar or the same problem?
Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
Rio.

Try this:
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1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder. If you need to reformat your startup volume, then you must boot from your OS X Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger or Leopard.)
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Set the number of partitions from the drop down menu (use 1 partition unless you wish to make more.) Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID (only required for Intel Macs) then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.

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