Can't access my Seagate USB HDD on my Airport Extreme

I can not access my 1TB Seagate Freeagent USB Harddrive over the working AEBS network. Hoping to be able to share and stream files to all remote laptops in the house. I have the HD connected to the AEBS and the AEBS client identifies the HD under Disks by name with the correct information. It's set for file sharing and Share Over the WAN. The workgroup is set to WORKGROUP to match my laptop and I've also gone into Windows and dissabled Windows Search per other suggestions on another discussion.
All that said and done, I still can not see or access the HD via my Win7 laptop. I see there are tons of disscussions on this issue and seams many are frustrated because the meager AEBS instructions that come with the unit simply say "Connect the hard disk to the AirPort Extreme USB port using a USB cable. Open AirPort extreme utility, select your base station, and then click Continue. Follow the onscreen instructions to create a new network, if you have not already set up your network." which I already have. Do I need to do this again? Are there any other settings I can do in my Win7 system or in the AEBS system to be able to access my ext HD? I really don't want to format the HD as some users are talking about.
Any thoughts or suggestions woudl be helpful. This was a main selling point for me deciding to buy this router.
Thank you much.

Update...I've also formated my USB HDD to exFAT and still can not access it via the network. It is still completely visable in the AEBS client software. MAC OS was not an option for formating. I thought that exFAT would work since its the newer type of FAT32. Is there a program I can download to format the drive to a MAC OS format and then be able to acces the drive on my four Win7 PC's?
I'm at my wits end with this AEBS and am ready to pull the plug and take it back for an exchange to a Cisco Linux 4200. Please let me know if there is hope for a fix.

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