How To Show All Files And Folder Hidden By Virus Using Command Prompt In Windows 8, 7 and XP
Sometimes you got a problem when your computer has so much viruses and your antivirus failed to detect it. You insert an external device like pen-drive, Flash drive or memory card or any other external storage device and all the data of the devices are got hidden and a shortcut to those files are created. On that case the files are not deleted they are hidden by some-kind of viruses (Shortcut virus). If you format the drive then all the data will be deleted. Complete the below process to recover those hidden files and folder without deleting the data using Command Prompt (CMD). The process works well on all version of Windows Operating System after XP SP2 (Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows RT etc..)
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Process To View All The Hidden Files And Folder using Command Prompt in Windows
- Open Command Prompt (CMD) as an Administrator.
- Navigate to the drive whose files are hidden and you want to recover.
- Then Type attrib -s -h -r /s /d *.* and hit Enter.
- That is it. Now you will get all the hidden files and folder as general files and you can use it.
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Will give it a shot. I have thousands of folders and might not have noticed missing folders at all 😛
Nice tip. Never knew about this.
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i have confidence that the commands you posted work but i can’t understand why you haven’t explained what they mean…
nice.
its working…
thanks a lot..
IT IS VERY USEFUL, THANK YOU VERRY MUCH
Very Useful. Thank you very much.
After I entered all those above things I hit the enter key it said file not found – *.*
Thanx… It Worked for me…
It’s good!
YES!!!! Thanks alot it worked. Some file still have the shortcut icon. Working on that now. Main thing my files have returned.
Thank you. I remember now what to do. God bless.
its not working in windows 8.1 i tried my best plz tell me some elz way
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It says that “File not found – F:*.*” what to do?
attrib -s -h -r /s /d *.*
when I write this command in the command prompt, it says that “Invalid switch – /s/d”
Please tell me how to resolve the issue.
Regards
says access denied
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its working 100% .. i need helpful.its really graet.. love it
useful command
It says, access denied – in my case :/
I think am ill luck on this
I entered it all word for word
Reply=invalid switch
Mine.. never worked.
Mine says..
Access denied – e:/system volume information
Worked for HEUR.Trojan.Win32.Generic (detected by Kaspersky)
Thanks a lot, it works
Thanks man, you saved my job.
it shows attrib is not reconized in as internal or external command what to do
its giving error access denied, Kindlly help
Sir
after navigating the drive when i type Type attrib -s -h -r /s /d *.* and hit Enter it shows the (‘ attrib-s-h-r is not recognized as an internal and external command,operable program or batch file.
i can’t remove hidden virus from the c drive
it says access denied?
I tried this many times and it worked but now it doesn’t..
Solved bro, thanks a lot 🙂 <3
Thanks!!!!
it didnt work. what do I do?? CMDjust said “not recognized as an internal or external command. please help
Thanks so much!
my memory card using space but can’t show folder, my system open system folder show, using this command attrib -s -h -r /s /d *.* what i do?
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wow gooooood
It worked, thanx
my flash drive is hidden and when i go to my pc and checked the check boxes on the view tab i can only be able to see it as drive drive D and am told to insert drive on attempt of opening it ””what can i do
Thankz lot
yeah its working,
good performance
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THis is Not Working!!!!
it worked for me. the folder showed up with no name, had to just rename it.
says access denied but works perfectly.
thank you.