Wednesday 14 October 2015

How to recover hidden files from Pen drive after virus infection


Mostly pen drive doesn't consist any security measures. Since we use Pen drive in many PC/Laptops it very easily gets infected with viruses and malwares. 

We can easily get rid of these Malwares by scanning it with any good updated Antivirus (no need of Format as it leads to Data loss).

Problem arises when we try to access our data stored in the pen drive.
When we check property of the USB Drive, Disk usage shows there are files in the pen drive but inside pen drive we can't find any!!
Rather we are left with some Shortcuts sometimes.

Don't worry All the files are safe only they are made Hidden by the virus.

To unhide your files and folders follow these simple steps:

1) Open command prompt:
         start->cmd (in search) -> open



2) Check Drive Letter of you pen drive from 'My Computer' or which drive hide in the files your computer.
                      

For example, If it is labeled as "G: drive" then u type the G: then enter

now pointer location will go to the drive.
 3) type this command and hit enter :

         attrib -s -h -r /s /d



Go to your drive, and see if you can now see all of the hidden files now.

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