drive external drive has a drive letter after changing from fat32 to ntfs

I have an external drive seagate expansion 1 TB that has a usb 2.0 and the source of clean energy, which I transferred all music, videos ect.

I thought I'd be smart and plug it into my xbox360 to live stream vids but all I ended up doing was changing all files to FAT32. I went through the process of change it back to ntfs and then rebooted my pc, but now the external hard drive has no drive letter or icon, although I can always find it plugged into usb as mass storage and it looks like that there are still files.

Ive tried to make the new drive letter in disk management, but the option is not available, ive also tried ubcd but if honest im im not for sure how to run the program and connecting it to another pc does nothing. Ive tried also to update driver, but all it says it is only his good health and no new update.

Is that what I do will allow me to open the external hard drive and keep my files that I hope is still intact to take it to a pro to fix...

I have an external drive seagate expansion 1 TB that has a usb 2.0 and the source of clean energy, which I transferred all music, videos ect.

I thought I'd be smart and plug it into my xbox360 to live stream vids but all I ended up doing was changing all files to FAT32. I went through the process of change it back to ntfs and then rebooted my pc, but now the external hard drive has no drive letter or icon, although I can always find it plugged into usb as mass storage and it looks like that there are still files.

Ive tried to make the new drive letter in disk management, but the option is not available, ive also tried ubcd but if honest im im not for sure how to run the program and connecting it to another pc does nothing. Ive tried also to update driver, but all it says it is only his good health and no new update.

Is that what I do will allow me to open the external hard drive and keep my files that I hope is still intact to take it to a pro to fix...

Your description of what you did does not sense, so it is difficult to determine what are the things to the State in so it is difficult to give you advice on how to solve this problem.

As a first observation, although when you got first the reader he might well have been formatted in FAT32, storage of files on it has no "Edit."  Because Windows understands FAT32, files would have stored on the HDD external and recovered as usual.  However, FAT32 imposes a 4 GB file size limit, so if you work with video, you probably want to reformat the drive to NTFS.  Sure, reformatting the drive erased everything that was on the disk, so I hope you kept your files to their original location before formatting.  If you format the drive without saving files AND that you have not used the drive, you can recover the data by using a tool likeRecuva data recovery.  Of course, the recovery of a 1 TB drive will take time...

Please, step by step in detail what you were doing as "the process of change to ntfs.

Please describe what shows disk management, in the upper pane, both in the lower pane.

There should be 10 columns in the upper pane:
Volume
Page layout
Type
File system
Status
Capacity
Free space
% Free
Fault tolerance
Overhead

The lower pane should have a color bar (or bars) that indicates if the space is used as a partition primary, unallocated, etc..  You can see the colors associated with different types on the view > settings > appearance tab.  The lower pane should also indicate if the drive is "online".

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