Unhide Files in Virus Infected Pendrive Using Command Prompt
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Tutorial Information
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Unhide Files in Virus Infected Pendrive Using Command Prompt |
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www.yourforum.gr |
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Windows Tutorials |
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13 Jul 2011 |
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13 Jul 2011 |
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Description:
Majority of computer users nowadays uses USB flash memory's like pendrives for transferring data, movies, games documents and more.. The only disadvantage of using this kind of memory is that most of these Flash disk's have write protection or virus protection in it. |
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Tutorial Instructions
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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>>Filder Options ..But the attributes of these files often stay unchanged even if you uncheck hidden attribute on file/folder properties.
One sure way to retrieve your file or folder attributes back to unhidden is to use command prompt in windows. All you have to do is described below in steps.
STEP 1:
Plug your pendrive to USB port of your computer. Make sure it is detected.
STEP 2:
Start command prompt by Click Start>>Run and type cmd then hit enter.
STEP3
Find the drive letter for the conected USB drive. For example, G:
In command prompt, type G:
Then type
CODE attrib -s -h /s /d *.*
Make sure that you put space between each elements in the code.
hit enter, wait a moment and this should unhide all your files on your pendrive. Checkout the screenshot for more to clarify.
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