My Airport is not finding my external HDDs any more

Hello,
I just moved into a new place and I didn't plug my external HDD into my Airport since then. But yesterday i wanted to do so and then it didn't recognize the hard drive any more. It was not showing up in the hard drive section of the Airport configuration utility. The strange thing is that the external hard drive gets recognized on my MacBook Pro. I also can't hear any noise (spinning up) from the HDD when I plug it into my Airport Extreme.
The only difference since I last used my external hard drive with my Airport before moving into my new place was that there was a firmware update in the meantime. Not I have the latest verion (7.5.2)
Could this have anything to do with it?

Plug the drive into your computer
Open Macintosh HD > Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility
Click on your drive on the left side of the window and then click Repair Disk at the lower right hand corner of the main window
It may take 30-45 minutes for this to complete. Then try the drive again at the USB port of the AirPort Extreme. Be sure to power everything off when you do this and restart things one at a time.
If that does not help, your last resort is to plug the drive into your computer again and open Disk Utility again. This time click Repair Disk Permissions. Then try again.
Are you trying to use Time Machine with the drive attached to the USB port on the AirPort Extreme?
Message was edited by: Bob Timmons

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