Cant see airport internal hard drive

My  airport extreme base station with internal 2g network-attached storage  NAS
model: A1408 stopped working recently. When It would finally turn on again, I can no longer see the internal hard drive. Its working as a wireless router. I tried putting a flash drive in the USB port and it sees that ok. Any suggestions? Shouldn't it show in the disk pane of the Airport Utility? I am using Win 7.

My  airport extreme base station with internal 2g network-attached storage  NAS
model: A1408 stopped working recently.
Just to be sure we are talking about the same AirPort base station. The A1408 is a 5th generation 802.11n AirPort Extreme Base Station. It does NOT have an internal storage hard drive.
Did you mean you had a Time Capsule or is the "network-attached storage NAS" device you refer to a device that is attached to the Extreme? If the latter, is it connected to the Extreme via a USB or Ethernet connection?
What is this hard drive formatted in ... NTFS, FAT32, ExFAT, or something else?

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