Have Airport Base: Want to share external HDD with Mac and PC

I have an Airport Base station with an external HDD connected via USB that has 2 partitions (1 in FAT32 & the other in NTFS).
I can access the eHDD via my Mac and listen to my music, photos, etc...
I want my XP machine to be able to do access the same eHDD and listen to music, see photos, etc.
My XP machine connects fine to the base station to use the Internet.
How do I share the external HDD so that it pops up in the Explorer in my XP machine?

Look into using exFAT format http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT

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