Can't see my External HDD via Airport Extreme & powered hub

I have Windows 7 laptop and it just can't seem to detect my HDD via the Airport Extreme wired through a powered hub. If I connect HDD directly to my laptop it can see the files.
First I had problems with seeing my printer and found out that I had to install Bonjour and that worked. Is there some kind of program to make my HDD accessible?

Mekhaiia wrote:
is there a easy way to format my external hdd.
of course there is an easy way, however, it entails erasing all data on the drive. do you have access to a spare, "temporary", drive ?

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I hope you can help me. I bought an Airport Extreme last december.
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I've gone around in circles on this for a few months now, but wanted to see if anyone had any new ideas. I have a 1TB drive attached to my Airport Extreme that holds my iTunes library on it. I have had some stability issues with the disk as follows, as well as a couple of nagging problems.
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Just had the same problem. I found the answer in other message threads. A solution would be to click on the option button immediately when you launch iTunes. A message box will pop up instructing you to select a library. This should allow you to choose the music library from the external drive. See the url below.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304447
It worked for me. Good luck!

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This is very helpfull.
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