Airport Extreme works normal, but the harddrive share no function, nothing found at the Air-port Utility / Disk / partition. Any suggestion?

Can't have share drive function.  Anyone can help?

Most likely if the AirPort Utility does not recognize the hard drive, it may be the drive's format that may be the issue. Per chance is it formatted in either NTFS or ExFAT? If so, the AirPort's file server function does not support either of these formats. The drive would need to be formatted in either HFS+ or FAT32.

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