Can you set up a portable hard drive on airport extreme

is there a way to set up a portable hard drive on the AirPort Extreme using windows?

FWIW, I currently have a number of WD My Passport portable USB HDDs attached to both my AirPort Extreme and Time Capsule base stations.
In order for either base station to share out this HDD, the drive needs to be formatted in either HFS+ or FAT16/32. It can't share NTFS or ExFAT formatted drives.
Once a properly formatted drive is attached to the base station's USB port, you would use the AirPort Utility to configure it for sharing. Once that is done, Windows treats these drives just like any other network shared drive. That is, they can be accessed using the following format: //servername/sharename. In this case, the "servername" is the base station's Base Station Name, and the "sharename" is the HDD's volume name.

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The drive was hooked in the exact same way 2 days ago at my old address and worked perfectly.
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You will need to run the AppleScript Editor, which you will find in the /Applications/Utilities folder, to create the following script, and then, save as an application which you can run later. I would run it to verify that it actually works. If it does, then you can add it as one of your Login Items of your User Account so that it will run at startup.
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Aaron Michalczuk wrote:
Personally, I would recommend you try newegg.com they usually have very good deals. All you need to look for is a 2.5 inch hard drive (usually called a notebook drive or laptop drive). It also should be SATA. Other than that you can just look for whatever specs you would like. I would recommend Western Digital, Seagate, or Samsung as excellent brands. However, for the most part it wont matter too much. I recommend newegg, because it is the largest online computer retailer in the world (i think) and all of their products have good reviews so you can read up on how the hard drives have worked for other people. The hard drive that came stock in my macbook is a Fujitsu which is just another manufacturer. I would base your decision off of the specs and the ratings, not the manufacturer. Just remember 2.5" SATA
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Working from memory here, 3+ years since I've used a PC. You will need the device name for the AirPort Extreme, device password and IP address of the AirPort Extreme on your network. For example, in the illustration below the IP address of the AirPort Extreme is 10.0.1.1 and the name of the AirPort Extreme is AirPort Extreme
My Computer
Tools
Map Network Drive
DriveZ:
Folder
\\10.0.1.1\AirPort Extreme
Finish
User Name = Your name or virtually anything should work
Password is the device password for your AirPort Extreme
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most likely 14m/sec but normally 10.5 this is ethernet wired and usb attached. wireless would be about 8M/sec
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