Why is an NTFS partition not mounting on Powerbook & how to get it to

I have a new external portable (bus powered) Maxtor Mini III drive that is formatted NTFS for Windows, My powerbook 1.5gHz cannot mount it. Disk utility recognizes the drive by name, but shows no volume and the erase tab is all gray. It mounts read and writes on an older PC running windows XT (at a friends). It also mounts to desktop on an older iMac, (I think that is the model apple) It belongs to a school and I have no administrator access to run disk utility on it nor play with it otherwise.
Therefore I conclude that a 1 year powerbook no longer has the capacity to mount what an older iMac is mounting.
What's that all about?
My goal is to be able to reformat this drive with my powerbook.
How can I do that?
I expect that if I use disk management utility on a PC and delete the partition, it will then be format-able on my powerbook. Expecting that then, when inserted the OS 10.4 will say the drive is not recognized and ask if I want to format it.
Perhaps what I need is some sort of generic universal NTSF USB "driver" for my mac such that I can recognize the NTSF partition and then delete it on the powerbook.
Any such thing? or what?
Thanks,

I was wrong, it is not NTFS. According to a 700 mHz eMac running 10.3.9, it is Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled). And it mounts the desktop on the eMac as well as reading and writing. I can copy files to it and remove them on the eMac.
My powerbook 1.5 gHz on the other hand, still not mounting.
Given this error I will repost this problem under a new subject.
Why would a drive mount an eMac desktop but not a Powerbook?

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