How do I get airport utility to recognise my wdstorage

I have a 1TB my book (WD storage) external hard drive - my iMac can see it and access it on the network but I can't figure out how to get it picked up by airport utility to allow me to set up time capsule back up.

Actually a apple time capsule is a broadband, DSL or Cable, wireless router with a built in hard drive and at least the router and wifi ap sections are configured by the apple airport utility. I don't own one but here is a link to the product.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MD033LL/A/time-capsule-3tb
And a image of the back of it.
MartinR wrote:
Since you are asking about a WD external hard drive, I think you meant to ask about Time Machine, not Time Capsule.   Time Machine is backup software that will work with many kinds of drives.  Time Capsule is an Apple hardware product (it's basically an Airport Extreme with an embedded hard drive).
When you first connected to the WD drive to your Mac (regardless of how connected), you should have been prompted about whether or not you wanted to use the WD drive for Time Machine.  If you didn't get such a message (or if you said NO), open the Time Machine application (in your Applications folder) and after it opens, click Set Up Time Machine.
If you have multiple Macs on your network, and you want to use the WD drive with more than one Mac, ethernet connection is preferable.

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