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Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Permanent solution in recovering the hidden files of USB/Flash Drive and Memory Card

Having a malware in your flash drive just like a simple shortcut in your files and hide the original is necessary to delete before it's spread to other computers. I am also a victim of this malware once in our computer laboratory, so to keep your USB for further damage just follow the steps below.

Now I'm gonna show you how to recover the hidden files on your flash drive.

Requirements:

1. Virus free Computer or Laptop and
2. Flash drive or USB.

Follow these steps :

1. Plug in your flash drive into your PC or Laptop
2. Click the start button in the 
3. Now find the corresponding partition value of your flash drive


Permanent solution in recovering the hidden files of USB/Flash Drive and Memory Card

As you can see the value of my flash drive is letter G

4. Now open the cmd or the command prompt and manually type attrib -h -s -r /s /d g:\*.* 

Permanent solution in recovering the hidden files of USB/Flash Drive and Memory Card
Note:
The letter G represents the partition value of your flash drive. It is case to case basis so it is not necessary to use this code if your partition is letter F or E.

The following command is used to retrieve the files from being hidden due to viruses.

5. Click right click inside your flash drive and select refresh.

And your done, I hope this tweaks helps you :)

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  1. NIce :-) http://www.bedoitechsolutions.com/2013/10/how-to-view-hidden-files-on-usb.html

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