External Hard Diver Fromatting Preventing use with USB Airport Extreme ?

I am putting together a network with my new MacBook and Airport Extreme and old XP Windows desktop and Seagate USB external hard dive. The drive is not recognized over the network from the Mac, butis available when the USB is plugged directly into the Mac. I called apple support and was told that this is because the Seagate drive is Windows NT formatted which is not recognized by the Airport Extreme, and that I will have to reformat the drive to a DOS or Mac format for this to work. I just want to see if anyone has any other ideas before reformating. Thanks.

If you ever plan to read the drive directly plugged into the PC, you'll need to format it FAT/FAT32. If you ever plan to use it for Time Machine it needs to be formatted HFS+. You can re-format later (data removed) if you wish.

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This whole prbolem came about when my computer started having issues, I want to back it up and whether I can continue to use my laptop or not I will still be owning an apple in the future. I went to buy a hard for back up and got told that it is not as easy as one would think to transfer files from mac OS to windows OS and vice versa. I have a mac, my boyfriend has a windows computer; we share files. Mostly I just copy his files, but once in a while I give him files too. I have read up and talked to people and only found one solution so far to format the external drive to fat 32 or exfat. I think only mac has the exfat option, but works well between both OSs, correct me if I am wrong.
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Hallo everyone,
I just tried my external disk on my Macbook air and I cannot save data to it any longer. This external disk was used with windows. Now i want to use it with macbookAir as I have changed my computer. It seems that OSX.10.8.5 can read the data on this external drive but when I try to save new data to it (pdf documents from the web for example) it refuses to save the data ans the message I get is that my drive is "read only". Please is there a way to change this or do I have to format the re-format the external drive?
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