Thursday, 25 July 2013

How to Recover Hidden Files From Virus Infected USB Flash/Pendrive without any Software

How to Recover Hidden Files From Virus Infected USB Pendrive without any SoftwareWe are using USB flash/pen drives for data transfer among computers. It's extremely essential to remain your data all the time with you. While you are using flash/pen drives, the main difficulty is Viruses. Generally flash/pen drives does not consist any security measures. Therefore, viruses and malwares can attack our flash/pen drive easily. If virus attacks your flash/pen drive, it hides all the files and generates .Exe extension to change the hidden files.

Usually you can see hidden files by clicking
Folder Options -->
View -->
Show Hidden Files and Folders
but this easy method does not work while your flash/pen drive is infected by dangerous viruses.
Here is an simplest method to view your infected files from flash/pen drive without using any kind of software.

Insert flash/pen drive into computer and find drive letter of connected USB drive
For Example, G:

Now click on Start --> Run

In Run box, type CMD and hit Enter

Now command prompt will open, in command prompt type the drive letter of your flash/pen drive and hit Enter.
i.e type G:

After that, type attrib -s -h /s /d *.*

View Virus Infected USB Flash Drive data through CMD Command

Now press Enter and just wait for 5 seconds. That's all, you have done ! Now you can view all your data in flash/pen drive without any problems.


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