Can't see files on USB drive on PC side

I'm on an intel mac and I have an USB external hard drive. I can only read and write to the drive on the Mac side. I would love it if i could access files (read and write) on the PC side too. Please help!!! Thanks

If you formatted the drive in an Apple file format Windows won't be able to read it unless you turn on personal file sharing and Windows sharing in the System Preferences and access it through the Mac. Otherwise, you would need to reformat it as FAT 32 to share files directly but that format has a 4 GB file size limit.
If you have an Airport Express Base Station you could connect it to that as a network drive and then you could share files with it, as the AEBS would handle the actual file reads and writes to and from the drive.

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