PS3 external hard drive with Vista 64

I need more hard drive space for my PS3 since it's draining out fast. I spent about 8 hours yesterday trying to setup my external hard drive to work on my PS3. Most of 8 hours were spent formatting the HD. I guess having so much crap in the HD didn't help at all. So, while I'm waiting I did some research on how to do this and I found very useful information. http://www.wikihow.com/Add-an-External-Hard-Drive-to-a-PlayStation-3 <-- This link has pretty easy to follow instruction on 'how to' in 10 steps. Anyway, here's little info about my hardware specs. I believe I have 2nd generation PS3 with 40gig and I'm using Seagate 500gig for ext. HD. First thing I had to do was formatting ext. HD to FAT 32. When formatting the HD with vista 64 I found http://www.partitionwizard.com/ this partition software useful. You shouldn't have any problem using this software if you have done partition before. I believe that pretty much covers on how to make ext. HD to work on your PS3. Just follow the instruction on first link above and get the partition wizard to finish off. Good Luck. LMK, if you need extra help and I'll do my best to fill those holes. Thanks.