Connecting to old wireless network drive

I've just bought a macbook pro. With my old pc laptop, I connected to the internet via a belkin wireless g mimo router/modem. Connected to this router via a ethernet cable was a lacie 250gb drive which I could access via a wireless network connection. Now my macbook sees the modem.router and I can connect to the internet, but I cannot see the external drive. All my network setu assistant seems to do is give me options on what wireless modem to use for a internet connection. The lacie drive is pc nfts formatted. Any easy step by step advice?!

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