Sharing External Hardrive Between Macbook and PC.

I bought a Western digital 120Gb hardrive. It seems to work perfectly well, but I have an issue.
I have loaded photos and movies on to it and I have attempted to connect it to a regular (non-Mac)PC to display them.
My problem is that the PC does not seem to know it is there. There is no sign that I have plugged it in.
Is this a feature of Macs or am I doing something wrong.
Any Input will be gratefully received.
Brad

the best way I've found to share external drives between them both is to make sure you format them using Fat32... then both Macs and PCs can access... I have 2 externals actually my old Macbook 120gb (Mac Formatted) for just time machine and Mac stuff, then a second smaller 40gb (Fat32) for Windows/Mac stuff... works out well.
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