Backup Windows and MacBook to the same HD

I am new to the Mac and would like to do Time Machine backups to an external USB HD. I would like to backup both Windows and Mac computers to this hard drive. What is the best way to go about this? I am thinking Mac may have something that is installed on the windows machine to recognize the HD or the Mac is going to have some tool for me to partition the HD off for each OS.
Please point me in the right direction. In its current state the Mac is backed up but the windows machines can not access the HD. The only option is to format. I think I just want to repartition. What is the default file structure called on a mac. Jesus I am a noob.

Use Applications>Utilities>DiskUtility to put two partitions on the external HD. Make the first one MacOS Extended Journaled, and the second FAT32. You can use Windows to reformat the FAT32 to NTFS if you desire. TM will have no problem using the Mac partition and will ignore the FAT32.

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