Cannot see external HD attached to the Time Capsule

I cannot see the HD in Airport Utility under Hard Disks. I have connected the HD to my Mac and reformatted the drive to Mac Extended but when plugging it back into the TC it is not visible in the airport utility and therefore I cannot access it from any computer.
I have also tried restarting the TC and powering off/on. Nothing seems to work. Unless it is a software configuration on the TC I can only presume it might be the USB port on the TC which isn't working. Help!!

Sorry I should have mentioned that I have already tried that. That is how I noticed the Externa HD wasn't being recognised anymore. One day it was there and the next not.
I have now reformatted the External drive to Mac OS extended with the GUID partition. It still isn't recognised by the TC. I have also reset the TC back to Factory defaults but still doesn't work. My last chance is to attach another HD to the TC to see if it is the original External HD or the TC itself. I don't have a spare drive to do this so I will put my Macbook into "HD" mode and attach that.
If anybody else has some suggestions for me then please let me know otherwise the TC will have to go back to Apple for repair.

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