Firewire Drive MacMini formatted to FAT32 not visible in Vista?

Gang,
I have a MacMini with Vista Home Premium and a LaCie Mini disk. I formatted the drive in MACOSX because Vista will not allow me to format with anything but HTFS.
I can read/write in OSX 10.5.1 fine but Vista does not see the drive.
Well Computer Management see's the drive and so does the Device Manager I just can't get too it.
What's the deal? Would like to use the drive for both OS's.
Thanks
Gordon

Gang,
It can only be done on OSX 10.4.11 were you can format and partition the drive as a Windows BOOT partition. (Partition under the options)
The problem is it was so slow in MAC land that it was not worth the time.
I do not see this option under Lepoard.
Stefan, thanks that looks like a much better way of doing this.
Thanks
Gordon

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