HOW TO RECOVER HIDDEN FILES AND FOLDERS DUE TO VIRUS

How to solve Folders Showing as Shortcuts, Hidden in USB/Memory-Card/HDD.

By connecting flash drives to the affected computer, often it shows flash drive containing just some folder's shortcuts. Sometimes it shows nothing though drive's properties show it has files in it. If you did not format your flash drive, then check whether the files are not in hidden mode. Sounds similar? It's a common problem for removable drive such as external hard disk, USB flash drive, memory stick, pen drive and memory card turns into shortcut and files on the drive are not accessible. 

So why this happens and how we can fix it? Most of the time it's because that the external media drive is infected by virus trojans or worms like AUTORUN, QWERT, BUOUFO. To fix it, you need to kill the virus first.
Follow some steps and fix it problem.

1. Open administrative command prompt.

2. Go to your pen-drive drive letter. Suppose your USB disk is G:. Type G: and press Enter

3. Now type the below command to remove system file, hidden read-only attribute attrib -s -h -r /s /d *.*

4.  Delete Autorun.inf from USB – Disk.

5. This makes all files visible and you are now able to delete them 6.  del *.lnk

7.  Now to remove the shortcuts from pen-drive , Check the size of any One or Few Shortcuts, all be same.

8.  Delete suspicious files, on error check task manager for process with same name or any suspicious process and end it.

9.  Open Explorer and right Click on Pen-drive , Click Open.

10. Search with Advance Search for all files of same size in Pen-drive.

11.  Select All and Delete