Time Capsule on Vista - issues connecting USB external drive (exact steps)

I recently have been trying to connect an 1 TB external hdd to my time capsule. When connecting directly to USB - the drive maps fine (NTFS)
1)Do I need to reformat in FAT32?
2) what steps exactly do I need to follow to access the drive? I have already followed these: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1331 and none work
a)This is formatted as: \\IPaddress\drivename (for example, \\10.0.1.1\mydrive) Mine is 192.168.1.1\\Fetz TB (though the name in utility shows WDC WD10 EADS-00l blah blah)
b)when running as server connection - drive does not display
3) in apple utility click on disks I can see the hdd listed Enable file sharing is selected, do I need to enable over WAN, share with bonjour? Workgroup and WINS server are empty...should this be the case?
Please assist
Thanks

1)Do I need to reformat in FAT32?
Yes, either FAT32 or HFS+ will be required in order for the Time Capsule to be able to share it out to network clients.
a)This is formatted as: \\IPaddress\drivename (for example, \\10.0.1.1\mydrive) Mine is 192.168.1.1
Fetz TB (though the name in utility shows WDC WD10 EADS-00l blah blah)
You will need to rename the drivename to not include a space.
3) in apple utility click on disks I can see the hdd listed Enable file sharing is selected, do I need to enable over WAN, share with bonjour? Workgroup and WINS server are empty...should this be the case?
You will only want to enable over WAN if you plan on accessing the drive from another network or the Internet. If all access to this drive is from the local network, then leave this option disabled. This would be the same for the Bonjour option. Entering a Workgroup makes it easier for Windows PC, but all computers would need to be in the same Workgroup to be useful. The WINS entry would only be a value if you have a WINS server running on your local network.

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The complexity with this idea is the software has to run from a Mac computer on your network.. so you need a Mac turned on, probably most of the day.
It isn't possible to partition the TC although you can create a image area.
The software would have to copy the material, that means all files to be copied, go from USB drive, back to the Mac, then back to the TC, and written to the drive. In other words you have just added Network congestion, although a proper incremental backup type software will not actually use a lot of capacity.
Finally it will be slow.. network drives are slower than internal drives. Well USB connected drive is much slower than the same drive connected directly to the computer.. and if the drive is connected directly to a computer it can be shared with the network.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4577/airport-extreme-5th-gen-and-time-capsule-4th- gen-review-faster-wifi-/4
Read carefully the speed of the USB drive plugged into the TC.

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That'll work as well, just not as convenient when you are on the go. You may want to pick one of these up as well. (not sure which plug you need, but there are a bunch of different ones on ebay).

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Usage Fat32Format X:
Erase all data on disk X:, format it for FAT32
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r sect)
Fat32Format -c2 X: - use 2 sectors per cluster ( max size 274GB for 512 bytes p
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Fat32Format -c4 X: - use 4 sectors per cluster ( max size 549GB ... )
Fat32Format -c8 X: - use 8 sectors per cluster ( max size 1TB ... )
Fat32Format -c16 X: - use 16 sectors per cluster
Fat32Format -c32 X: - use 32 sectors per cluster
Fat32Format -c64 X: - use 64 sectors per cluster
Fat32Format -c128 X: - use 128 sectors per cluster (64K clusters)
Version 1.03, see http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/fat32format.htm
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Now is Apple equipped to deal with all these cluster sizes. Have Apple defined anywhere what FAT32 is for them?
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after making sure the computer browser services was up, I opened the networking and sharing center, clicked on the "view status" of the connection, and then on the "properties" in the new window that opened.
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marvinclick wrote:
But why there is no drive nor icon shows in Find after it connected to Time Capsule?
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