USB drives sometimes would be got virus-infected and the data inside them would also get lost. Virus attacks can result in unexpected data loss on a hard drive, external hard drive or a USB pen drive. Little did many people know, you can actually recover hidden deleted, or corrupted files from the virus-infected USB thumb drive using certain techniques.
For users who have no idea how to recover virus-infected files from USB, it can be a real disaster but do not worry. Because there are possible solutions to retrieve files from USB. Solutions actually should be executed in succession. The steps are pretty simple to be done. Now, you don’t have to become worried anymore about problems like this.
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Steps to retrieve back missing folders from a USB that got infected by virus:
- Insert your virus-infected USB into a computer or even laptop.
- From the display, remember the exact location of your USB.
- Go to the ‘Start’ button and type Cmd. Then, press ‘Enter’.
- Type in ‘attrib -h -r -s /s /d e:/*.*‘. Make sure you follow the spacing correctly.
- For the final letter of the formula, type in the location of your USB according to the display earlier.
- Then, you will find all the missing folders from the virus-infected USB.
- That is how you can retrieve back the missing folders.
Sources: TikTok ammar_pian.