Windows 7 will not recognize network drive on airport extreme

Good day. I created a network drive using a WD my book 1tb hard drive. I formatted it to fat32. Windows 7 does not see the hard drive, but the WD software can find it and the apple extreme router can also see the hard drive. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Hi 2pfspiff,
To verify if you can connect to the drive at all, you may want to try to manually mount it from the Windows machine. The following article has some generall steps for mounting an Airport Extreme USB hard drive under XP and Vista, but the steps should be similar under Windows 7.
AirPort: How to mount an AirPort Extreme USB hard disk volume in Mac OS X and Windows
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1331
Cheers,
- Brenden

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