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Q: Using an external hard drive with an airport extreme and HP computer

- I recently bought the airport extreme, and also bought a Seagate external hard drive for my music files.  I can see the hard drive on the airport utility but cannot access it or find where to access it.  I am using an HP computer with windows 7.

 

 

Help please!

Windows 7

Posted on May 4, 2014 10:59 AM

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Q: Using an external hard drive with an airport extreme and HP computer

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  • by Tesserax,

    Tesserax Tesserax May 4, 2014 5:29 PM in response to mateo742
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    May 4, 2014 5:29 PM in response to mateo742

    The AirPort Extreme cannot share out the attached Seagate USB hard drive if it is formatted in NTFS or ExFat. Please check to see that it is formatted in either FAT32 or HFS+ (Apple format).

     

    If it is already formatted in either of the latter two formats, then verify that the AirPort Utility can properly identify the hard drive by using the AirPort Utility for Windows.

     

    Finally please checkout the following Apple Support article for details on accessing this shared drive from a Windows PC.