How to: Recover Virus Infected Hidden Files from USB Pendrive

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Now a days about, most computer users have a Pendrive to exchange their files. As it is a portable drive, the popularity of the Pendrive is increasing day by day. As it is mainly used as the medium to exchange files from one computer to another, there is a huge chance of getting the Pendrive infected with virus. And if you have viruses on your computer, then your Pendrive must be infected by the viruses and the viruses infect the files in your Pendrive. The infected files are mainly the victims of some hidden viruses, which can be seen from  Tools>Folder Options>View>Show hidden files and folders. So, in this shout, I’m going to share an awesome trick to recover virus infected hidden files from your USB Pendrive.

Recover Virus Infected Hidden Files from USB Pendrive

  • At first, insert your USB Pendrive into your computer
  • Now, go to Start >Run>Type CMD and click Enter
  • Check the letter of the inserted Pendrive. For Example, J:
  • Next, in Command Prompt type J: then click Enter and Command Prompt should show J:/
  • In this step, type attrib -s -h /s /d *.* and make sure you put a space between each letter and elements in the code.
  • Click Enter and wait for a few seconds
  • Finally, check your USB Pendrive, you can see the files are back in their locations

So, guys, let’s recover the virus infected hidden files from your Pendrive.