Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Unhide folders after Cleaning Viruses

Sometimes when theres a virus on our flash drive we taught that we lost our files and most of them are folders but have you notice that the remaining size of your flash drive remains the same? It is because, the folders are still there but it is hidden Super HIDDEN.


How to View: On the windows explorer click “ Tool” > “ Folder Option” > “ View” > scroll down and tick on ” Show Hidden files and folder “ and untick “ Hide Protected Operating System Files( Recommended) ” > OK.


How to unhide it: on the Start menu, click "Run", type "cmd" and hit "Ok".
type the command



attrib d:\*.* /d /s -h -r -s
for example:
attrib d:\folder/d/s -h -r -s
if your file folder name has a greater that 6 characters, type the first 6 characters only and add ~1
for example:
attrib d:\exampl~1 /d/s -h-r-s

Note: “ d:” is your drive letter, You can change to specific drive you want.

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