My PC won't find my airport extreme.  Please help so I can access external hard drive and printers and internet.

airport extreme (newest version)  has external HD connected and two printers.  everything works fine from my MBP.  My PC on the other hand wont even access the internet while connected to airport via ethernet.  Please help me.

Sorry I don't really understand.... there are no partitions on the drive.  How do I repartition it?
And should I use "erasing free space" or "erase" for wiping clean my drive of everything?  Erase seems to be faster last tiem I tried.
Thanks!

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