HT202807: AirPort base stations: About USB disks
Learn about AirPort base stations: About USB disks
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Feb 25, 2016 2:20 PM in response to RobertLethby Tesserax,A USB hard drive, formatted with FAT32 & attached to the Time Capsule's USB port, can be accessed from a Windows 7 computer for file services. Also one formatted in HFS+. However, it will be the backup software that you use that will determine if it can access this drive for backups.
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Feb 25, 2016 4:04 PM in response to RobertLethby LaPastenague,Time Capsule 802.11n (4th Gen)
You do not need FAT16.. or even FAT32 which are now well outdated formats.. however useful for small disks.
The windows will see a HFS+ formatted disk as FAT32 over the network.. as per Tesserax you are using the wrong backup software.
I have run free version Macrium Reflect for many years (only recently bought in incremental for the free version) and it works very well to the TC.
Genie time line also have a free version which should work ok.
Internal backup software in windows has long been terrible. Use 3rd party and it should work fine on your old TC.