Formatting External Harddrive. What software to use?

I have an external harddrive, a ATA RAID drive, 600gb that I use for video editing. It is connected through a SCSI connection. Basically, it was having problems when I captured video, it would drop sync. So I am trying to format the harddrive to see if that will fix the problems. I will also use Disk Warrior on it to make sure that the disks are not bad. What software should I use to format the harddrive. I did an erase using the disk utility feature on the computer, but is there any other program I need to use. All of my files have been transfered to backup, so the RAID is cleaned from important files.

You can also use Disk Utility to format your drive, whether you want to partition it back out or keep it as a RAID.
See here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=DiskUtility/10.5/en/duh1011.html
Good luck, and be sure to award points!
-K

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Partition Magic uses some custom routines. So, that may be your problem.
Try using the routines built-into Windows XP to repartition and reformat the drive.
You should be able to right-click on the drive, and choose format. Then, choose your partition type and format.
There is also a built-in utility somewhere on the machine. I think it's in the System Utilities folder in the Start Menu. You'll have to look through the submenus in the Start Menu to find it. I'm not in-front of a Windows machine to look for you.
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I would use Windows XP's built-in routines to remove all partitions completely. Then, save that configuration. Re-start, then go back into the utility, and make sure that there are still no partitions.
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