My friend was panicked when he found out his assignment files were missing from his thumb drive. He thought the files were already gone by a virus attack or were accidentally deleted by his friends.
After I did some analysis, I found out the files are still there but a virus had modified the file properties to ‘Hidden’ and hide all files in the thumb drive.
Although he tried to “Show Hidden Files” but the virus does not allow him to view them. Luckily, he has a very intelligent and clever friend who guides him on how to overcome this problem.
The Solution
1. Insert the thumb drive to an empty USB slot. Take note the drive letter. For an example, F:
2. Press Windows + R, and type “cmd “ and press Enter
3. Enter this command, attrib -r -a -s -h /S /D F:\*.*
4. Press Enter and wait for the command to execute.
5. Open the thumb drive and you should see the files that were hidden by the virus.
Conclusion
Hopefully with this guide you can help your friends to solve the same problem. And yes, I also hope this guide will solve your files hidden by virus problem too. By the way believe me, schools/ universities is the best place for virus to spread!
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