Airport Extreme/MY book 1Tb drive issues!

Hi there, I just got a 1tb My book (western digital) external drive with usb 2.0, firewire 400&800 and esata. At first the drive did not show up on the Airport extreme-- so I connected it directly to my laptop- and then back to the extreme (usb 2.0) and it showed up in Time Machine. Then, when I tried to run the backup for the first time, It failed, saying that the disk is not in the right format. I can not find anywhere to reformat or erase the disk so it will work. Please help!

Connect the drive directly to your Mac. Then use Disk Utility to format the drive as Mac OS Extended (HFS+).

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ok the second post down sounds like it could be relaly helpful - but im no whizz and im unsure what it means, never mind setting it up. Any further advice or understanding would be greatly appreciated.
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