External Harddrive to e4200 wireless router

I would like to connect my lacie 1tb external hard drive to the router and be able to access the hard drive from macbook wirelessly without the router being connected to anything else but the external hard drive, is this possible?

Just plug in the hard drive to the router via usb. Make sure your hard drive has power too. Then go to the router's config page and click create a share under the storage tab. The user manual has a more detailed description of this process.
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