Unhide hidden files caused by viruses (USB Flash Drive and External Hard Drive).

Now a day’s people used to use USB Flash Drive and External Hard Drive to copy files like Music, Movies, Pictures and other Documents. They slipped all DVD, CD and other Optical Disc because it takes time to copy.  USB Flash Drive (Pen Drives) and External Hard Drive are portable and easy to use in some ways they are stylus.

However if some nasty viruses attacks your USB Flash Drive that will hide your entire file in the drive; what  will you gonna do?For instance, some of the files turned out into shortcut.

Now I'm gonna tell you my knowledge about the permanent solution on recovering your hidden files by Command prompt in windows operating system.Here are the steps;

1. Plug you’re USB Flash Drive (Pen Drive) or External HDD or Memory Card which is affected.

2. Go to Start -> Type CMD-> Run as administrator

3.   Find the drive letter for the connected USB flash drive or external hard drive. For Example, I:  

In command prompt, type I: 

and hit Enter. Command Prompt will show I:/

( Left, for USB flash drive.Right, for external hard drive. )

4. For USB flash drive : Type attrib -s -h /s /d *.* 

    For external hard drive : Type attrib -h -r -s /s /d k:\*.*

Make sure to put space between each element in the code.

and hit enter and wait for few seconds.

Now check your USB Flash Drive (pen drive) or external hard drive , you can see your files are back in their locations.