How to recover hidden Files from Virus infected USB Pendrive

Wow, this is truly amazing, I mean, it worked..All the word files in my usb were hidden for, like, a long long time already and I can’t find any solutions, I already tried different antiviruses but nothing happened, they were still inaccessible. Then i tried this method and Viola!! it worked, thank you so much for posting such useful information..

unfortunately it didn’t work for me. The memory flash icon says that it is full but when i open it a file which is named marijin is just there , which i can’t delete. i am sure that i have data but there is a problem either with flash memory or my computer.

damn yar thanx alot thnx alot to post that ……keep up the goooooooood work…..

thaaaaaannnnxx alot u dont how important was the snaps which i got from your help thanx a lot

I am using my phone with USB Cable to deduct.

thanks for the tutorial man.. it helps

Thank you so much Vincent! It did show my hidden files. However, it did not show everything. Some folders are still hidden. I got an error message “Access Denied” in some folders. Those wee the ones not shown.

Can you help me further please.

Dhita

Thankx needed this for a friend..who lost someting important when he got his portable HDD infected by a virus. I recovered it..and now he is happy
3 cheers for you…

Thanks For ur Support to Recover my files from Virus.

kewl Vinent…thanks dude…. was really helpful…

It solved my problems for now. thank you very much

Wow thanx!recovered m aurorun infected files!btw i still have a problem..theres this memory card infected with virus.evry time i try to scan it with an AV..the comp shutsdown. Any suggestions to overcome this Vincent?plz

Thanks for that awesome hint. i recovered my files.

You’re a big genius

This is perfect. The comp at my college where I work infected my drive. IT claimed it wasn’t possible. Your fix allowed me to access my files though I still have a bunch of weirdly-named mysterious files that I guess I’ll just manually delete.

Thanks!

my external hard disc 500 GB Toshiba got infected with virus.after that it shows only o bytes. zero free space showing… i need my data it is very important can u help…

Thanks …work well

-from phillipines ^_^

I thank you very much! Thank you, you are a real HERO!

Bro i tried it…but its showin access denied G:\$recycle.bin 100-1000…………….
pls help me out bro…its my imp data
thank you

Thank you very much. It worked perfectly fine. My whole college is facing the same problem with our pendrives. Some have files hidden while some have them converted into shortcuts. Does the command works for the shortcut problem as well? I would like to know more about the virus: how it spreads, where the virus file is located, etc. Does the command you provided us with remove the whole virus in the pendrive or just unhide the files?
I would also like to know if the virus affect a host computer that is plugged-in with an infected pendrive.
Thank you.

hi..i’m having trouble with my harddisk. i have a lot of files in it, but it only shows one file “.part” 4KB. what is that mean? it happened just after i restore my laptop to factory setting. is there any relation? i’ve tried insert harddisk on other laptop, and it can show all folder and file, but the folder is corrupted/hidden.. how can i fix it so it can show content on my laptop? please help me..

Its says ‘ ACCESS DENIED’ what should i do 🙁

hi, i have try this command..but it says “the target of the symbolic link G:\DCIM\NIKON101 doesn’t exist”

what should i do..i have so much memorable picture on my camera’s memory card 🙁

sorry but it doesnt work.

error msg states that “Access denied – G:\System Volume Information”

hey thanks a ton maan…! it really worked. I was very tensed

You saved my life with this. High FIVE!!!

i always suffer from viruses and it delete my files …..after reading this article it saves my file thnx

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Nkamput…

Tnx…GOD bless

Thanks a lot it works

thanks!!!!!!..Very useful info…

Alright, I did this and it recovered my hidden files on the pendrive, but my missing files are still missing. I know the files have to be there, though, because the memory availability is exactly where it was when all my files where present.
Please help, I have been through so many websites and none seem to address this outcome. Email is best. Thank you.

You are an intelligent software Engineer!! My problem is resolved through above mentioned guidlines. Thank you so much…

Thank you soooo much! It’s very helpful. Now I’m going to share this 😀

wow !!

am so happy, i get all my files back, Good work !!

thank you !!

thanks …good solution….

Thanks Pal great help and work

Oh man! I can’t thank you enough! I had all my programming projects in flash drive since Day 1 and then recently got infected because college computer had virus and thanks to you, I recovered ALL my files. Thanks a lot!

Thanks, get my files from hell

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hey, i got one of my folder back, but my movies folder still hidden, can u give any suggestion for that?

hi, great buddy I recover all of my lost folders…

Thanks a lot…it really worked…thanks for the magical solution..

Thank you very much bro. 😀

its giving access denied

OO Thanx buddy,, it worked

thanks a lot! (n.n)

Useful trick, although it only worked for me doing it one bye, eg:

attrib -s -h /s /d

because my infected hardware was a USB HDD and the cmd prompt would stop at the system folders of the drive, not going over the rest of the folders. Finally I didn’t have more than 20 of them, so it was pretty easy.

Remember, if this happens to you as well as me, don’t try to change attributes to every single subfolder and / or file, only to the root folders; this will suffice.

THANKS A LOT!!

thanks bhai….

Thanks man, used the manial version and workrd the first time. Picked up this nasty virus when trying to print a document at a hotel business centre. be careful of hotel business centres.

Wow, this was really easy and worked the first time I tried it. Thank you soooo much!!

Worked perfectly!! I was about to lost a lot of files in a usb stick! Keep up the good sharing lol

thanks goood mann great info greattttt yar…….

Worked like charm! thanks a ton!

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What to do if the same infected folders are in my hard drive??? how to recover them?? please help me i have important folders which are infected with the same…. they are now converted in exe file extensions…

Thanks this worked lot for me thank u so much for ” Information given little recover is lot”

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thank’s very much,it work’s first time.

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Thanks a lot for the help. It really Helped me

WOW, its works….thanks a lot…

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THANKS man…… 🙂

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very helpful! 😀 thanks! Been looking for this.

Awsme Dude

Thanks. very easy & prompt solution without downloading any software.

thanks u very much …..

You are a life saver!

Awesome……………..Thanks u very much.

very nice tip

tested to me,.

good job

thanks you very much. God bless you!

Thanx a lot chief, been trying to find a solution that actually works for a while now. Thanx again. Will definitely recommend your site.

Buddy, a bundle of thanx to you, you saved me from humiliations in the office,

you are a great guy……………..

keep on working and helping people

Lots of thanx and love to you.

thanx …..thanx….thanxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hitender Thakur
New Delhi India

It really works,
Thanks a lot.

Hi

Thank you very much the screen shot helped me a lot, thanks indeed. i recovered all my files and folders

will spread this good knowledge to everyone.

Wish you all best and best of luck

thank you very much……… i got my files back.

OMG! Thnkz A Lot! God Bless You…..

dude, this is awesome. thanks so much

doesnt works for me…

after pressing enter…

J:\>attrib -s -h /s /d *.*
Access denied – J:\$RECYCLE.BIN\desktop.ini
Access denied – J:\$RECYCLE.BIN\S-1-5-18
Access denied – J:\$RECYCLE.BIN\S-1-5-21-1083747099-1101337293-3583622327-1000
Access denied – J:\$RECYCLE.BIN\S-1-5-21-1179661762-2467744434-2010292044-1000
Access denied – J:\$RECYCLE.BIN\S-1-5-21-1746150329-4160492786-656643166-1000
Access denied – J:\$RECYCLE.BIN\S-1-5-21-2022708999-2364629373-67855336-1001
Access denied – J:\$RECYCLE.BIN\S-1-5-21-2184798575-3673869896-529869709-1000
Access denied – J:\$RECYCLE.BIN\S-1-5-21-2191522083-619720556-2486212805-1000
Access denied – J:\$RECYCLE.BIN\S-1-5-21-2373694435-4293734232-3040097507-1000
Access denied – J:\$RECYCLE.BIN\S-1-5-21-3063666227-2323362485-3045669914-1000
Access denied – J:\$RECYCLE.BIN\S-1-5-21-3593970405-3807135645-418739482-1000
Access denied – J:\$RECYCLE.BIN\S-1-5-21-3728740656-1910797228-3223028204-1000
Access denied – J:\$RECYCLE.BIN\S-1-5-21-3985283948-1096106565-342752088-1000

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thatks man .. it was really usefull ..

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mutch brother
for give me this awosom knoledge……
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Thank you very much my friend… it really helped me a lot.

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Thanks a lot. It worked.

I MEAN I’VE TRIED MANY (SORRY TYPOGRAPHICAL ERROR)

It works…I really appreciate.Thank you so much 🙂

Well!! followed and recovered my files fro infected drive.thanks for sharing.

Worked a treat, thanks!!

Thank you very much my friend… it really helped me a lot.

Very good! I tried the “Command Prompt” procedure and it worked…!
I salute you man… your a real Tech Freak to have thought of a simple solution for an extremely naughty problem for me.

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thankyou soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much for your guidence. it is very important to all computer user.once again i wnt say thanks . your great great tech 2 hell.

Thank you very much!!!!!! you save my files

Thanx. It worked GREAT..!!!!

Thank’s a lot. It is very usefull. When my fd infected by virus and all my folders hidden, I thought it only can be recovered by software. But, I find your way is so simple. ^_^. Any way thank’s for sharing.

I follow the steps in recovering hidden files as what you posted in your website, but sad to say that the result is access denied, is there still chance to recover my files?

Hi man I just tryed the following command but it gave me an error message but it is not working. And I also tried to run unhide.exe file and hitmanpro bot are not helping to recover the files in my hard disk. I would like to let you know that I connect any other flash drive in my computer even that drive gets infected. Please give me a solution

that’s really working thanks bass

awesome!! it worked! GREAT!!! thanks

This is really fantastic, it works. Many many thanks…………..:)

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Mindblowing….superb! It worked.

very useful for my life

thanks dude!!! your great…

hmm. my flashdrive is not working. when i plug in my flashdrive is not opened . i should i say the memory of my flshdrive is not read the memory .the properties show o bytes. i dont know what happen .please help me 🙁

thanks much! less than a minute you solved my problem.

thank you, so much bro

c4uz

Thank you Thank you Thank you!! I first want to say that I downloaded the site recuva from when I searched about incidents like this happeneing. It only was able to recover a few files so I still was freaking out! I came upon this website and tried this action several times before it actually worked, but it did!! Thank goodness!! I have learned my lesson and will now save in 2 locations…on my flash drive and dropbox!! Thanks again!!! The best part too is that I didn’t have to pay anyone!! Whew!!!

it works……
tanx
a
lot

great…its work

Hi, I tried already, i retrieved all my hidden files. but the problem is all the files now become ‘FILE0000.CHK’. I can’t even open it with any other program.
What can i do now?
Pls help.
Thanks.
KOK
11/10/2013

Thanks.. This step really work.. I were think that my laptop is the problem bcoz cannot view my photo from the memory card.. If I insert the memory card to my camera, the picture can be view, but nothing appear after insert in the laptop.. Now it already appear after try the steps.. Thanks so much.. I’m very excited..

Thank you it worked. Super excited!!!!!

Thanks a heap, worked just great!