Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Recover USB Flash Drive/ Pen Drive(s) Data Damaged by Virus or Missing 4#IXXEBLAIY.ini Files

If you have some nasty virus on USB drive that hide your entire file in the drive? i.e., hides your files and folders, creates .exe file extensions of your folders and even corrupt your files. You can view these files by going to Tools  >> Folder Options... But the attributes of these files often stay unchanged even if you uncheck hidden attribute on file/folder properties.


One sure way to retrieve your file or folder attributes back to unhide is to use command prompt in windows. All you have to do is described below in steps.


STEP 1:

Plug your pen drive to USB port of your computer. Make sure it is detected.


STEP 2:

Start command prompt by Click Start >> Run and type cmd then hit enter. (Run as Administrator, if required)


STEP3

Find the drive letter for the connected USB drive. For example, H:

In command prompt, type H: and hit enter

Then type

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

Make sure that you put space between each element in the code.

Hit enter, wait a moment and this should unhide all your files on your pen drive.

Checkout the screen shot for more to clarify.