How to Recover Files From Your Infected Flash/USB Drive

Recovering files from your infected flash drive is a big a problem especially if you had stored on  it some of your data about your blogging activities. This is what happened to one of  my friends and   me as well. Here, I  am going to show you what I have done in order to recover those hidden files caused by viruses through command prompt in windows operating system.






Recover Files/Data From Your Infected Flash Drive


Step 1. Insert your Flash/USB drive which is infected and open it.
Step 2. Click Start Button (this is the windows icon) . Then type CMD in the blank provided and hit or click the cmd button. See the screenshot below.
recover files from infected flash drive
Step 3.Find the drive letter for your connected USB (infected) drive. For Example, E:
Step 4. In command prompt, type
E:
recover data from  virus attacked usb

Step 5. Then click enter. Command Prompt will show E:\>
restore files from infected usb

Step 6. Then type the set of letters next to it.

attrib -s -h /s /d *.*

retrieve files from infected usb
Note: Make sure that you put space between each elements in the code.

Step 7.  Hit enter and wait for few seconds.
Let me know if you have some questions regarding this post.That's all budies! * :-)

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