External Hard Drive (160GB) won't mount?!

Hi focus,
I am new in MAC OS and I had some difficult to MOUNT my External HARD Drive in MAC OS TIGER 10.4.10 (all updated).
My MAC simply does not recognized my external HD, but recognize when I am using a Virtual machine (Fusion VMware) and running Windows XP. I already try to format in differents formats, FAT/FAT32/NTFS/EXT2 but nether recognize them.
So I ask, there is some "restriction" to mount external IDE drives? I try to use disk utility or ipartition or SupperDuper and no one recognize automaticly.
My original HD was partioned in 2 parts (by me) one for the system 38 GBs and other one 79 GBs for my musics and documents.
If someone has any ideias why this is happen, please help me to solve this problem. Because I need to backup all my data (no actually bootable stuffs) in this external.
Thanks,

Thanks A Brody,
But how can I format my External HD if my MAC can not recognize, even in disk util or ipartition. I think the partition Magic (for windows) can do that, but can not.
So I think, now, the Mediafour MacDrive can do that, is that real? I am Downloading one version from web and I will try in a second. For me is not a problem format in mac format and read in windows within this software, but the problem is recgnize to format in macformat.
I run windows in virtual machine and now I already Install this Macdrive, but does not work, I can not format my external drive with this software. Well I read more and more discussing foruns and also saw you tube videos about formating in mac and it is not a big deal, its should be easy, first of all if mount my external drive to just starting talking about that stuff.
I will get some other "interface" more modern and try to recognize, if do so, maybe I bougth other USB interface. But for now It is to hard stuff has an external 160GB harddrive to backup stuffs.
Thanks and if some one has other suggestion it is always welcome!

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