Cant mount the USB drive to desktop

Please help - I am trying to get the attached disk drive to display on my iMac.
I can see the drive in the Airport Utility but cannot connect to it at all.
I have rebooted, reverted to V7.4.1 etc. but still nothing!
Going crazy here

Hi,
From what I'm reading, you are connecting your HD to your AirPort Extreme and it is not showing up. Are you looking on your desktop? Did you look in finder, when I do network sharing with my Mac it shows up in finder. In the left column under the HD section or in Network section. If it is in the Network section then I have to click the connect button
Also is this a drive you have connected directly to your Mac before? If not try to connect it. If this works then the drive should work in the router. Also most new USB drives are formatted in NTFS. If your drive can't be written to connected to your Mac then it's formated in NTFS or anther format that Mac doesn't support.
Just reformat it
I hope this was helpful.
Message was edited by: bitlord
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