How to Recover Virus Infected Files From Pendrive
Today most of the people use removable media like Pen Drive, Memory cards to share files, photos, games and many more files for their entertainment. But those files contain harmful viruses, torjan and other spywares and malwares. You can remove those virus and spywares by using anti- virus or anything as you wish.
My friend has 4GB pen drive and he was not able to find some files in USB. They are infected by virus and they are hidden in the pen drive.They cannot they restored by any anti-virus programs. So my friend decided to format it, but I told him that I have tricks to recover the files.Now I will show you how to recover those files.
Step- 1:
- Scan the Pen drive for any virus or spywares because they can harm your PC.
Step- 2:
- Start >> Run >> Then type cmd . Command prompt will be open.
Step- 3:
- Then see which type of drive it is. For eg: androiderode(I:). Then type i: hit enter.
Step- 4:
- Now this is most important step. Carefully type,
attrib -h -s /s /d *.* Hit enter.
Wait for a minute if it is a large file and you will find the hidden files in USB. This trick also works for SD Cards, Jet & Flash pen drives.
If you are not able see the hidden files, then leave a comment I will give suggestion for you,
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Subramanian
Hello! My Dear Friends. I am Subramanian. I am writing posts on androiderode about Electronics testing and equipments.
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This is a very good tip
It’s good, but after hidden files shows a folder System Information also visible and this was not hidden back when i try to hide this folder by using right click > choose properties > and check Hidden checkbox, the files are permanently unhide, can you plz help this issue?