External hard drive is present in Airport Utility but not on PC

I've hooked up a Passport 500GB external hard drive via USB hub.  Airport Utility recognizes the hard drive; however, it is not present anywhere on my PC so that I can save file to it?

Vista does not offer FAT32 as an option within the device manager - only ExFAT.  I've tried reformatting via 'cmd' but the system gives me a 'higher level needed' response.

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