How to recover the files from pen drive or removable disk which are affected due virus attack?

Nowadays USB pen drives are used by most of the people to transfer and save the data. A very important problem in the USB pen drives is virus infection. Since the pen drives are being  used in different systems to transfer files, in spite of the antivirus softwares used, the viruses are affecting the files stored in the pen drive easily.

If your files are affected by the virus, your files will go hidden and it will not be visible when you open the pen drive. It will display an empty folder without files. But when you check the "properties" of the pen drive, you can see that your pen drive contains the files by the size of the memory used. If you do not have any important documents in the pen drive, you can format it and use it again. But, if you have any important files in the pen drive, you would want to recover the files at any cost. 

You don't need to install any software to recover the data from your pen drive. You can easily recover the files by following the below steps without using any recovery software.

1. Insert the pen drive in your computer 
2. Go to Start => Run => type "cmd" without quotes and press enter. 
3. Now check which drive is your pen drive using my computer(If you open My computer, you can see the label of the pen drive)
4. Suppose if the pen drive is E: drive, then you type "E:" in the command prompt and press Enter.  
5. type "attrib -h -s -r /s /d *.*" in the prompt with spaces in the appropriate places. 
6. Check once whether you have typed correctly and then press Enter

Wait for few seconds and now check your pen drive. You will be able to see the files again in your pen drive. Happy Recovery!!!