Time Capsule won't recognize External Hard Drive?

Ok so I have a 1 TB Time Capsule that I previously had a 1 TB G-Drive attached to store excess data, movies, ect. I needed more space so I purchesed a 6TB G-Drive, connected it to my Mac Book Pro and coppied all the information to it from my other two 1TB external hard drives. Then I connected it to my Time Capsule. However here is the the problem I can't locate the hard drive throught the Time Capsule. If I connect it directly to my Mac Book Pro I it works just fine but no such luck finding it when it is connected to my Time Capsule? While connected to my Mac Book Pro I checked Disk Utility and it is formated with OS Extended but not (Journaled). Does that matter and if so how can I format it without dumping the info on it as it took 10 hours to load it the first time. Please help.

Apple recommends that the drive should be formatted in Mac OS Exended (Journaled) when it is connected to the USB port on the Time Capsule, or AirPort Extreme, so that might be an issue here.
Another issue might be that the USB port on the Time Capsule is borderline as far as its ability to supply adequate power for a hard drive....even if the hard drive has its own separate power supply.
See if you can locate the drive as follows:
Click anywhere on the open Desktop to display the Finder menus at the top of the screen
Click the Go menu, then click Network
If the Time Capsule icon appears, double click on it and a folder representing your hard drive will appear if the format is being read
(You may need to click Connect As the first time that you do this and enter the Time Capsule device password)
Double click the folder representing the hard drive and it will mount on the desktop
If the folder for the hard drive does not appear, then the formatting issue or power issue may be at work here. Try a powered USB hub to see if that will allow the drive to be displayed in the Finder.
If still no luck, the only other thing that I can think of is that you will need to re-format the drive as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).  That means moving all the data on the drive to another storage area, formatting the drive using Disk Utility and then transferring the data back on to the drive.
Unfortunately, there are no guarantees that this will work either, but I know of nothing else to try. 
Maybe another user has another idea.

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