Time Machine formatted my External HD, now it doesn't work on my PC????

I just bought a Macbook and made the move from a PC to a Mac, I had information that was on my External Hard Drive that I wanted to transfer over to the Mac, but when I was snoopin around Time Machine I formatted it so that now only a Mac can read it. It formatted to Mac OS Extended Journaled so now my old PC won't read my External HD but I need to get my stuff from my PC to the Hard Drive. Can anyone help me please??? How can I format my External Hard Drive back to it's original state?

You can use Disk Utility on the Mac (located in the /Applications/Utilities folder) to reformat the drive to MS-DOS format. You can also use Disk Utility to repartition the drive into 2 partitions- one for MS-DOS format and one for HFS+ for use with Time Machine. One drive- two purposes.
From your original post, it sounds like you thought that formatting would not destroy the data on the drive. Formatting is generally a destructive process, no matter if you are using Windows, Mac, Linux, Solaris, etc... The information that was on the drive is most likely gone.
Many who are new to Macs (or Unix...) think that the Mac is deficient. The Mac can read many file formats, including just about every Windows file format ever released. Windows machines can not read HFS+ or the various Linux file system formats without 3rd party hacks. I'll stick to the Unix side...
Good luck.
Steve

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