Express and ethernet hard disk

So I'm trying to make an ethernet hard disk wireless with my airport express. Apparently this is possible by changing some settings, but I don't really know what I'm doing. Any help or ideas would be wonderful.

Corneillious, Welcome to the discussion area!
Unfortunately this is only possible if a unique set of conditions are met.
Normally the Ethernet port on the AirPort Express (AX) is NOT active. The ONLY way to make the AX's Ethernet port active is to have the AX use WDS to wirelessly join a network. This is easily done if your network is created by another AX or even an AirPort Extreme base station (AEBS). However if your wireless network is created by another device this is almost certainly not possible. Very, very, very few non-Apple devices are compatible with Apple's WDS.

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If you have a USB port with cable from an External HDD and have a USB port on your Router (mine has one, the small A type port I think, the same as our Printer's USB port) and I know that can be used to connect to the Internet/Network from computer to Router, so it has a chance of being able to connect to the Router from an External HDD.
The 2 main problems/concerns about this are that the USB port may only be 1.1 (most likely there on the Router for use as a Printer port and 2.0 speed not needed as quite a few printers have only 1.1 USB ports on them. If it worked, speed would be slow. The other problem is that if you did try this, you may not be able to get the USB port on the Router working with the External HDD as your Router may need to have a special USB Device Driver installed on the "computer" that wants to use the USB port on the Router (again, my 2Wire brand Router that I got when I signed up for AT&T (SBC) Yahoo DSL also needs this to allow the Router to recognize the connected device on the other end of the Ethernet Cable).
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Once the external HD is turned on my Time Capsule is not longer recognized. I can't connect to Time Capsule and make any backups. It is also no longer appearing in the Airport settings.
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