External HD change back to windows format

Hi Guys,
Recently I backed my macbook up with TC using an external HD which OSX said needed to be formatted for TC to work.
But now I need to change the external HD format back so windows can read the HD.
Any ideas?
Cheers.

Windows cannot read the external hard disk if you plug it directly into the PC.. (unless you download a HFS+ viewer which are available free). But windows can read the hard disk as long as it is connected to the TC.
It cannot read a TM backup though. You need to create a directory and copy the files to it.
In the TC setup make sure you turn on guest read write access and set the workgroup to the correct name.
Any other issues will be on the windows computer and should be resolved there.
Try and access the TC directly from windows explorer by typing the IP in the address bar thus,
\\ipoftc\
If it is no accessible try and ping the IP and see if it is responding.

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