Access exFAT formatted USB hard drive partition through Time Capsule 2013

I am trying to move data, mostly music, from my old PC to a wirelessly accessible HDD that we can get to from our MacBooks running OS 10.6.8. I have a 2013 Time Capsule with a USB hard drive attached, but I can't see the exFAT partition containing all of the data (on my Mac). I can see the other two partitions, which are formatted for a Mac. I can also see the exFAT partition on my Mac when it is plugged in directly, I just can't access that partition through the Time Capsule. Any ideas on how to remedy this? Or if there is a better solution for moving this data. We don't care about accessing the data from the PC any longer. We are going to get rid of it. We just need a place to keep all of the data where we can get to it.
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You need to connect the drive directly to a Mac, copy the data to another location, reformat that partition as Mac OS Extended (Journaled), and put the data back onto it.
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Frankly, it is not worth the effort and trouble to try to transfer the old backups to the new Time Capsule.....my opinion....having done this in the past.
It is possible though, but I would not recommend it due to the complexity and downsides involved with this. To give you an idea of how to do this, check out this support article.
http://pondini.org/TM/18.html
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Time Machine will make a new complete backup of your Mac and then add incremental backups from that point.
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Dear all,
I have bought a powered usb hub to connect two usa hard drives to my 3rd generation time capsule, as it is written in http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2421
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This is coming up all the time.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3787224?start=0&tstart=0
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But do reset the partition scheme to GUID.. not MBR.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ph5845
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http://pondini.org/TM/17.html
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See remote access here.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/wireless/airport?view=documents

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It should be HFS+.. it may work with fat32 but that is a lousy format.
The actual format of the drive is irrelevant to the PC.. the TC offers SMB connection.. so it is a true file sharing device.. the format used to store the files cannot be directly read by windows but is "interpreted, translated" via the firmware of the TC.
BTW this is true of all network storage.. A NAS can store files in whatever format its OS requires.. freebsd like freenas might use XFS.. or linux use EXT2 or REISFS.. it makes no difference as long as it offers that store to the windows (and apple) network as SMB.. then windows can handle it.

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Welcome to the discussions, squire78!
If your external drive is connected directly to your computer, you can have Time Machine backup both your computer and the external drive.
If the external drive is connected to the USB port on the Time Capsule, Time Machine cannot backup this drive.

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I want to add an External Hard Drive to my Time Capsule to be accessed by both a Macbook Pro and a windows PC
I've added it ok and I think I configured Airport utility ok yet when I find my time capsule in the network neighbor hood and log in to it
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yet I cannot see or find the External hard drive. the hard drive is fromatted with Ex-fat
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Access exFAT formatted USB hard drive partition through Time Capsule 2013

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