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ldichiara11
August 23rd, 2012, 09:21 PM
Good evening -
As a follow up to my prior post - I was hoping to get some additional information regarding attaching an External Drive to my Airport Extreme and getting it to be accessible by both a mac and PC.
I have attached a G-Drive Mobile formatted for Mac to my Extreme Airport; when I do this I can see and access it via my Mac but I cannot see it on my PC.
Does anyone know why this might be? Do I need to partition and format the drive for both or is it something simpler than this?

Thank you for your help.

DeltaMac
August 23rd, 2012, 10:05 PM
The hard drive does not need to be changed, unless it is NTFS format.
All you need to do is connect and mount the drive, on either your Mac, or a Windows PC connecting to the same network.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1331
more
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2426
Also, refer to the user guide for your Airport Extreme
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/airport_extreme_5th_gen_setup.pdf