problems connecting an external hard drive to Time Capsule

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problems connecting an external hard drive to Time Capsule

I have a 2,5 multimedia hard drive connected to my brand new time capsule. But I can't access to the external hard drive from the iMac.

I can't access neither to the Time capsule data disk nor the external hard drive from my portable windows 7 computer.

Is there any restricction applying to the format of the hard drives?

Any clue how to configure the network in windows to access to the Time Capsule?

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5), Time Capsule 2 TB

Posted on Mar 23, 2015 5:04 PM

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Tesserax

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Mar 23, 2015 9:49 PM in response to Lmlabarra

USB hard drives, attached to an AirPort Extreme or Time Capsule, work best when formatted as HFS+. Those formatted in FAT32 will work as well. Drives formatted in NTFS or ExFAT will not work.

When properly shared out, this drive can be accessed from both Macs and PCs, as well as, Linux-based computers. For PCs, this drive is considered a network drive and accessing it would be the same.

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