How to recover Hidden files on you flash drive

Nowadays, malware and viruses are spreading aggressively on the internet and hiding people’s data on USB flash drives such as pen drives or external hard drives. As a result, data loss problems caused by this reasons are increasing! So, if you see that your important files or folders are missing or become inaccessible when you plug in your flash drive to the PC, it might suggest that your device is infected with a virus and your files are hidden. As one of the victims, you will want to know how to recover your data.  

Here, is a step-by-step tutorials were created to show you how to show hidden files on a USB flash drive caused by a virus using the CMD command prompt in Windows 10/8/7. 

To show hidden files on USB flash drive using CMD attrib command 

1. Simultaneously press Windows key and R key to open the Run dialog box, input cmd and click Enter to open the Command Prompt.

2. Input attrib -h -r -s /s /d c:\documents" (without double quotation marks) in the Command Prompt window and hit Enter.

The "C:" represents the drive letter you want to recover the file. it may differ on your computer 

to check your letter. 

click on "My computer" icon on your desktop then check what letter is given to you flash drive, then replace letter "c" with the letter

This attrib command will make CMD show hidden files on the USB flash drive by retrieving the information it has found. Here, "c:" is the drive letter and "documents" is the folder name that you want to unhide. So, if you want to show a hidden file or folder on another hard disk, you can use the attrib command by changing the drive letter and folder name.

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