How to use a eksternal hard drive on Mac and Pc?

i have a eksternal hard drive i used with time machine, and now i can not use it on my other windows based computer.
do anyone have any solution for me?
i would like to be able to uke it on my mac and PC

If the drive or partition is used for Time Machine backups(or as a Mac OS X boot volume), you need to install MacDrive on the PC. Otherwise, format it as MS-DOS or exFAT.
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