PC can't connect to AEB external drive, but Mac can.

Until recently I was able to connect to the external hard drive I have attached to my 1 generation Airport Extreme base station, version 5.6.1, running firmware version 7.6.4. It just stopped showing up one day and it gives me errors when I try to connect saying credentials are wrong, but they're not. I've tried everything I could find, including changing some Windows settings, reverting firmware, resets and a lot more. It used to automatically connect at start up, and showed up as a 'Z' drive, and worked great. The drive is fine as well, that was my first concern. I just connected to it from the File Browser app from the app store, and my other Apple devices, MPB, Apple TV, both see it. Just not my Windows 7 pc. This was my last resort after many hours of troubleshooting. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks in advance.

Standard network troubleshooting.
1. If you are using wireless plug in by ethernet.. never trust wireless.
2. If the computer gets an IP from the Extreme.. ping the extreme in a command window.. does it respond? It must respond before worrying about all the rest.. Windows can auto decide it is now in a public location and ram up the firewall. Make sure your network location is home.. and if necessary turn off the firewall.. the TC must respond at least by IP.. name as well would be good.
3. Open the Control Panel admin tools and make sure bonjour is running as a service. If it has failed stop and restart it.
4. Try mounting the hard disk directly by IP in windows explorer.
\\10.0.1.1 (replace with the actual IP address).
5. If it is only wireless that is the problem.. you probably had some sneaky windows security patch install and that ruined everything.. windows patches are often 2 steps forward.. 3 backwards.. you can no longer be attacked because you no longer have internet connection!!

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