How to Recover Hidden Files from Virus Infected Pendrive without any software

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Posted On July 27,2012,By Muthukumar

Now a days Pendrives are very important to keep the data always with you. but only disadvantage is viruses and malwares are easily attacks pendrives. If virus attacks your pendrive it hides and creates .exe extension for all your files from pendrive. Generally you can view hidden files simply navigate to Folder Options > View > and select Show Hidden Files and Folders. But this method doesn't work if your pendrive  infected by virus.

Here the simple method to view your infected files from pendrive. 

Step 1:
Plug your USB pendrive in to computer and find the drive  for your connected USB drive. For Example, E:

Step 2 :
Go to Start ==> Run ==> cmd and hit Enter.

Step 3: 
Command prompt window will open type drive letter of your pendive for example E: and hit enter. It shows like below E:\>


Step 4: 
Then Type these character with correct space placement

attrib -s -h /s /d *.* 


See below image

Are you sure that you entered correctly then hit enter and wait for some seconds. Now view your pendrive it show all your infected files and folders with out any problem.