The Problem
My girlfriend was panicked when she found out her Final Year Project files were missing from her thumb drive. She thought the files were already gone by a virus attack or were accidentally deleted by her friends.
After I did some analysis, I found out the files are still there but a virus had modified the file properties to ‘Hidden’ and hide all files in the thumb drive.
Although she tried to “Show Hidden Files” but the virus does not allow her to view them. Luckily, she has a very intelligent and clever boyfriend who guides her on how to overcome this problem.
The Solution
1. Insert the thumb drive to an empty USB slot. Take note the drive letter. For an example, F:.
2. Press Windows + R, and type “cmd“. Ok.
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3. Enter this command,
4. Press Enter and wait for the command to execute.
5. Open the thumb drive and you should see the files that were hidden by the virus.
Conclusion
Hopefully with this guide she can help her friends to solve the same problem. And yes, I also hope this guide will solve your files hidden by virus problem too. BTW believe me, university is the best place for virus to spread!
PS: All folders in your thumb drive become shorcut? I got the solution here… ๐
PPS: If your PC still having problem, you can either scan your PC with antivirus or repair it to speed up by using Registry Easy.
iamgrace says
wow! thank you ๐
it did work..
Alex Hong says
Nice work, thanks, it helps me alot
Andre Douglas says
Thanks a mil. That was very helpful!
Necs says
HAAAAMAZING ๐
Heat says
10 x it works ๐
Albert says
Wow! Thank you!!! After for so long I found a solution. I retrieve my important files! Yipeee!
YAP says
thank you !!!! That’s great !
Vlad says
Hi!
Unfortunately I get the error message “Unable to change atribute”
Do you know any workaround this?
Noorulbari Mal says
Wow, it really worked, opposite to my expectations.
Thank you so much
kat says
Hi! I get the message “Access Denied – E: \ System Volume Information” What to do next? ๐ Thank you!
jovet says
Run your MS-dos prompt as Administrator then follow the instructions..
xtian says
my pc said “Path not found – F:/” ….what will i do?:(
Joseph Portales says
Depending of what volume letter is your usb drive, you should change the command:
F drive: attrib -s -h -r f:/*.* /s /d
E drive: attrib -s -h -r e:/*.* /s /d
G drive: attrib -s -h -r g:/*.* /s /d
I hope it helps!
Regards!
Jose
kabeer says
Thank u soooooooooooooo much !!!!
Alex says
Thanks a lot! It worked! Your girlfriend must be very proud of you!
Arollxx says
thanks a lot…it is working…
Gita Diani Astari says
You, sir, have saved my and my friends’ lives almost literally. THANK YOU SO MUCH.
jhean says
hi it says, “access denied”
jovet says
try to run yung MS-DOS Prompt as Administrator then follow the instructions. hope it works..
Heinrich says
..Thank you so much sir ๐ Now I found out the files hidden by the virus. thanks a lot sir
mohammad says
thank you ! you solved my problem !
chuy says
wow!..great..tanx.
Minhaj says
Thanks man, it worked for me as well. Many thanks!!!!! God bless.
hamid says
thanks man you really safe my life
Sanjay Khan says
WORKS LIKE WONDER!!… AWESUM DUDE.. KEEP GOING..
Ayzee says
Wow, this is awesome. it works like magic. Thank you for this post
sam says
thanks a lot… it really works ๐
ryan says
where i can find MS-DOS ..
Hossein says
click Start and type CMD
Engji says
i love you man
Lee-Ann Sayasa says
Thanks a LOT! I recover my important files.
Thank you very much….
pakistani says
MAN kiss yourself in behalf of me
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Abid Khan says
LoveYou man Umuah Umuah Umuah :*
janet says
hi thanks a lot…weeew now i did it this time very well hahahhahaha after trying some options heres the best thanks again…u share ur knowledge for us!!:)
roja says
Thank you Thank you Thank you very much
THOUSANDS OF ONE says
THANKS LOT OF DUDE.., THANK YOU SO MUCH…
ezra says
Thanks dude… I thought i needed to install a software to unhide my files but with your simple instructions i dont have to download and install another software.
Thanks again….
Saifullah says
Thanks. It also worked for me.
Ali Saeed says
Thank U So Much.
I was very Much Worried about my very important data.
This is awesome. it works like magic.
Thank you for this post.. ๐
Jamjam says
Thank you so much for the help! I am so close to re-typing all my lost files just have it compiled. :))
Naed says
Thanks a lot for the tips. ๐
MiroslavBGD says
Tnx a lot man ๐
i had lots of hidden files and i could only see them with Total Commander…
now its all fixed ๐
Sai Prasad says
Thank you very much. It worked on my 4GB pendrive. Will it work on my 160GB portable hard drive too?
Sai Prasad says
Oops… it didn’t work on my 160GB portable hard drive. It says “Access Denied” multiple times, perhaps once for each folder. What can I do?
Sai Prasad says
Oops… it didn’t work on my 160GB portable hard drive. It says “Access Denied” multiple times, perhaps once for each folder. What can I do?
Ezy says
It’s working! Thanks a lot!
taeminia says
thanx genius…
Faizan says
Thank You
Abhishek Anand says
Awesome!!!!
jacky says
it works! muchos gracias!
Faton says
It worked, now I have my files back. Thank you.
Nabin says
Thanks for the sharing. Really worked. Cheers!!!
Ramiz Anjum says
10/10 Bundle of Thank Bro…
jacks says
one usb i can fix, but another one show this message on cmd “found.000\dir0000.chk” .how to fix this?
sadish says
I had retrieved the folder but it is showing as hidden only… I am unable to change the attribute to normal folder.
After “Right Click”-> “Properties”-> In Attributes the status of Hidden is locked.
pseudo says
Bagus bro keep up the good work…