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How To Unhide Hidden Files

This document provides instructions for recovering hidden files and folders on USB drives, memory cards, or hard drives that may be caused by a virus. It describes using the attrib command in an administrative command prompt or batch file to remove hidden, system, and read-only attributes from all files and folders on a drive to make the hidden items visible again. Specific steps are given for using these methods on USB drives, memory cards, or multiple local hard drives to delete shortcut files created by viruses and recover access to hidden files.

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How To Unhide Hidden Files

This document provides instructions for recovering hidden files and folders on USB drives, memory cards, or hard drives that may be caused by a virus. It describes using the attrib command in an administrative command prompt or batch file to remove hidden, system, and read-only attributes from all files and folders on a drive to make the hidden items visible again. Specific steps are given for using these methods on USB drives, memory cards, or multiple local hard drives to delete shortcut files created by viruses and recover access to hidden files.

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RECOVER HIDDEN FILES AND FOLDERS

DUE TO VIRUS
August 24, 2013 at 11:35pm

How to solve Folders Showing as Shortcuts, Hidden in USB/MemoryCard/HDD


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To remove such virus follow the steps
1. Open administrative command prompt.
2. Go to your pen-drive drive letter. Suppose your USB disk is G:.
Type G: and press Enter
3. Now type the below command to remove system file, hidden readonly attribute
attrib -s -h -r /s /d *.*
4. Delete Autorun.inf from USB Disk.
5. This makes all files visible and you are now able to delete them .
6. del *.lnk
7. Now to remove the shortcuts from pen-drive , Check the size of
any One or Few Shortcuts, all be same.
8. Delete suspicious files, on errror check task manager for process
with same name or any suspicious process and end it.
9. Open Explorer and right Click on Pen-drive , Click Open.
10.
Search with Advance Search for all files of same size in Pendrive.
11.

Select All and Delete

By connecting flash drives to the affected computer, often it shows flash


drive containing just some folder's shortcuts. Sometimes it shows nothing
though drive's properties show it has files in it. Even we get some

inaccessible folder or file. This type of problem may also seen in our local
drives (HDD partitions). Even paid anti-virus is unable to resolve those
folders, they just scan and detect The AUTORUN worm which one will
execute all programs. Then our important files remain hidden. Hidden
folders and Shortcuts by the Autorun Worm
Here we will see how can we solve this problem by using command line and
batch file. Though the batch file is nothing but the executable file contains
command lines. So solving the hidden and shortcut problem of USB or
drives, we must have the administrator privilege as we will execute
something.
Using Command line: To solve/fix the folder's hidden or system file, the
easiest way is to run a command line. You can apply this command to USB
and local drive as well, need to change the drive_letter. Go to Run, type cmd
and hit enter. In command prompt just type:
attrib -h -s -r -a /s /d drive_letter:\*.*
And hit enter.
Be sure you've typed the drive letter (e.g. j:,h: or D:) instead of
"drive_letter" in the command line. My USB drive letter is J: and my
command should looks like: Command for unhide system-hidden files on a
drive All files and folders will be normal and you should be able to delete the
shortcuts, created by the virus.Command line details: Here atrib=attribute,
"-"=remove attribute/permits, h=hidden s=system, r=read-only, a=archive,
/s=sub directory, /d=directory, drive_letter=the letter of the drive shown in
windows explorer (e.g. j:,h: or D:) and *.* is called the wild card for all files.If
you don't like to be a "command Ninja" then see below. USB, MicroSD,
MiniSD or other Mmory Cards issue:
1. Connect your USB or memory card to the PC or laptop.
2. Copy these lines and paste it into a "new text file" @echo offattrib -h -s -r
-a /s /d drive_letter:\*.*
3. In the 3rd line give the drive letter name (Example: J or K or L etc.)
instead of "drive_name"
4. Save the text file as any_name.bat
5. Double click on the any_name.bat file and it will run in the command
prompt and see the hidden files/folders come back.
6. Delete the shortcuts and unnecessary files and folders from USB
drive. Local drive issue: 1. Copy these lines and paste it into a "new text
file" @echo off attrib -h -s -r -a /s /d D:\*.*attrib -h -s -r -a /s /d E:\*.*attrib -h
-s -r -a /s /d F:\*.*attrib -h -s -r -a /s /d G:\*.*attrib -h -s -r -a /s /d H:\*.*attrib

-h -s -r -a /s /d I:\*.*attrib -h -s -r -a /s /d J:\*.*@echo complete. 2. Save the


text file as a bat file (example: any_name.bat) 3. Run this bat file by doubleclicking on it. Thus you can solve this kind of problems with a *.bat file. You
can save the *.bat file for solving this hidden problem. Important: These
tutorials are applied for Windows 7/Vista/xp. You must have the
administrative privilege to run the command or execute the .bat file. Put the "
: " after the j, k, or D (drive letters). These commands are not case sensitive.

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