Prepare new drive without using Disk Management

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I have just purchased a new Hitachi hard drive which is mounted in an
external caddy and connected by Firewire. I already have several similar
drives. I need to partition and format the drive. I do not want to use
Disk Management as it has the irritating habit of leaving free space in case
of conversion to dynamic disk. I do not want to use Partition Magic as
experience indicates it has difficulty with larger discs over 300GB, this
disc is 500GB. The last disc I prepared with Seagate DiscWizard however
they have now updated the tool and it now knows that I do not have a Seagate
drive. Can anyone recommend a tool to create a single volume, it does not
even need to format the disc? Windows can do that.
Thanks.


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