How To Recover Hidden Files From Virus Infected USB Pendrive

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How to recover hidden Files from Virus infected USB Pen drive

If you have some nasty virus on USB drive that hide all your file in the drive? ie; hides your files
and folders, creates exe file extensions of your folders and even corrupt your files. You can view
these files by going to Tools>>Folder Options ..But the attributes of these files often stay
unchanged even if you uncheck hidden attribute on file/folder properties.

Here i going to tell the Permanent Solution for recovering hidden files by Command prompt in
windows operating system.

Step One:
Plug your USB Pendrive or External HDD or Memory Card which is Affected.

Step Two:
Go to Start -> Run-> Type CMD and Enter

Step Three:
Find the drive letter for the connected USB drive. For Example, I:

In command prompt, type I:

and Hit enter. Command Prompt will show I:/

Step Four:
Then type

attrib -s -h /s /d *.*

Make sure that you put space between each elements in the code.

and hit enter and wait for few seconds.

Check the Screen Shot of Above Steps:

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