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namelessjin
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Time Capsule not recognizing my Goflex Desktop drive?

Hoping someone here might be able to help me out with this...

 

 

I just picked up a Apple Time Capsule and was able to set it up with no issues. My MBA and PC laptop was able to connect to it with no problem.

 

 

I had a 2TB Seagate Goflex Desk external hard drive that I wanted to connect to the Time Capsule via the USB port and have the Seagate act as a network drive that I can read/write from any of the computers at home (4 in total).  I'm a photographer so I wanted to use the time capsule to backup my MBA and my pictures only.  I would use the Seagate for videos/docs/pics/everything else.  Seagate drive is formatted to work on both PC and Mac (I believe?)

 

 

It connects fine, but I am not able to locate the Seagate on any of my computers. I am able to see it through the Airport utility and have it enabled to share in my network. However, I can't see it through my windows explorer in PC nor my Finder in MBA? I've also set it to Enable sharing through the airport utility as well.  Am I missing something?

 

 

I can connect the Seagate directly to my PC or MBA and it recognizes it fine, able to read/write. Only when I connect to the time capsule is when I can't find it anywhere?

 

 

Help??

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Re: Time Capsule not recognizing my Goflex Desktop drive?

The GoFlex Desk drive isn't supported when attached as a network drive. We do have the GoFlex Home, which was specifically designed to be accessible from multiple computers:

 

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/network_storage/home-network-storage/

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Re: Time Capsule not recognizing my Goflex Desktop drive?

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Re: Time Capsule not recognizing my Goflex Desktop drive?

Ah!  So I need to get a new drive?

 

With the Goflex Home, once I plug it into the time capsule, it should recognize it right away?  Also, is the Home formatted to work with both Windows and Mac?