Viewing files on a hard disk attached to airport extreme

I recently had issues with seeing a hard disk attached to airport extreme. The problem i had was that the hard disk had to be formatted in FAT-32 format which I did and fixed that problem. Now the data on that drive can not be accessed or modified from my PC ( windows 7) over the wireless network. When i look in my windows explorer the hard disk comes up on the network as airport drive Z and it has crosses in front of the files on the drive and a message that i do not have permission to access thes files. Any ideas would be appreciated in how to fix this. Thanks. darryl

Is there no way that time machine can delete the oldest back up when it becomes full?
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The one thing that can throw this off is if the drive is near full, and you suddenly ask Time Machine to make a very large backup. Then, Time Machine can have problems, and you have to manually delete some older backups.
I thought about time capsule, but someone told me that it runs very hot and has no off switch.
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I spoke to a lady in the Apple store today about a bigger drive and asked her what will happen when it gets full. She suggested that then I get another one. Sounds pretty crazy to me!
Sounds like a salesperson....hoping that you will buy more stuff.

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