TECH: RECOVER HIDDEN FILES AND FOLDERS DUE TO VIRUS

Nothing as frustrating and painful as loosing some of your important files on your USB disk after scanning and gotten rid off virus.

By connecting the affected flash drive to the 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 . Solving the hidden and shortcut problem of USB or drives, we must have the administrator privilege.

To remove such virus and delete shortcut files follow the steps

1. Open administrative command prompt; From Computer Start icon, type CMD and right click on cmd.exe and run as administrator
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 read-only 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 Pen-drive.
11. Select All and Delete. 
12. And your Disk is back to normal with all your files back