Personally I nearly always find the makers utility's the easiest tool to use doing such things, have you tried that ?
>>>Here<<< is their installation utility, TBH I haven't used it personally, but if it's anything like Maxblast for Maxtor drives you can set partitions format and copy partitions, my hope is this will do the same for you, they also have a utility called
>>>SeaTools<<< for diagnostics incase that helps, see if it does what you need.