How to recover hidden pen drive data using command prompt?

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Today lots of Computer users are in trouble because of their pen drive or USB flash drives. A common problem caused by a virus named shortcut virus, which converts all your data files inside your pen drive or USB flash drive into shortcuts and hide your actual data which may be very useful to you.

You become a victim when you insert or plug in your pen drive or USB flash drive into someone's computer who has shortcut virus in his Computer. It effects your pen drive or USB flash drive as you insert your pen drive or USB flash drive into the computer which is suffering from shortcut virus.

Most of the people format their pen drive or USB flash drive when encounter this kind of problem . This is not the proper solution .

So now you will learn How to recover hidden pen drive data from Command Prompt ?

To recover hidden pen drive data from Command Prompt you need to follow these two steps.

Step 1. Open Command prompt or go to start and type cmd and press Enter or press Window + R key and just type cmd and then press Enter button on the keyboard.

Step 2. After doing all this stuff now you have a command prompt. Enter this command attrib -s -h -r /s /d H:\*.* (mind the gap or space between -s -h -r and /s /d H:\) and then press Enter button. Here we go all the data in your pen drive has been recoverd. So use this simple method or trick whenever you face this shortcut virus problem or hidden pen drive data problem.

Note: Replace the H: letter from your pen drive or USB flash drive letter. You can easily get that just open My Computer and notice your USB flash drive letter and replace H from your pen drive or USB flash drive letter in the above command.

So we have learnt now, How to recover hidden pen drive data from Command Prompt ?It is quite easy and very handy for computer geeks. Keep learning the power of the Command Prompt in the previous and next posts.

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