Have you ever encountered a scenario whereby, you inserted your 8gb, 16gb, 32gb flash drive or memory card into your PC or a device hoping to listen to music or watch videos because you previously collected a lot of the above from your friend; only to be disappointed that you can access it??
YES! You can see that the flash drive is full? but when you click on it it says "No folders in the drive" and you even tried "clicking on hidden files" and all that ....
Well, I can tell you, clicking on hidden files might not help in all cases:
YES! You can see that the flash drive is full? but when you click on it it says "No folders in the drive" and you even tried "clicking on hidden files" and all that ....
Well, I can tell you, clicking on hidden files might not help in all cases:
Let me Unlock THE GENIUS IN YOU!!
Follow the steps below carefully:
What happened to their files/folders?
Apparently, there’s some kind of virus that’s found its way
to our USB sticks, laptops etc and therefore to our phones. The virus hides the
files, and the regular “Show Hidden Folders” Option in Windows would not
un-hide these files/folders. (Of course, that’s a regular guy’s explanation)
How to recover the files/folders?
Connect the device in USB mode. (Note the Drive letter of
the infected drive)
Go to Start > Run > (Windows Button + R) then type cmd
The MSDOS prompt shows, then type the drive letter you noted
earlier, e.g E: and press enter.
The MSDOS should show E:\> by now, So, go ahead and type
attrib -S -H /S /D * and press enter
Type exit and VOILA! All your files are back
Please note, the above command will un-hide all your files.
Both System files and Hidden files. This is so because;
The ‘-‘ in the
command is used to clear an attribute
The ‘S’ is the System
File attribute
The ‘H’ is the Hidden
File attribute
/S processes files in all directories in the disk
/D process folders in the disk
Therefore, -S would clear all System File attribute and –H
would clear all Hidden File attribute (at this stage, you don’t care any
longer, because you have your lost but found files already, and you’ve probably
closed this page. But I shall go on). /S ensures all your files are processed
and /D ensures all your folders are processed.
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