How to Recover Corrupted/Hidden Files from Virus Infected USB or MMC

How to Recover Corrupted/Hidden Files from Virus Infected USB or MMC

USB and Multimedia Cards (MMC) have become most popular storage media due to clear edge on past Optical Storage which cannot to reused and portability. From an ordinary computer user to a professional, every person uses USB or similar Portable Storage Device. With the increasing number of users, the virus is also spreading and it shocked you when corrupts/hide your important files. Without scanning you are not been able to use this device and if you scan it, your files gone for forever. So, here is my Step By Step Guide to recover your corrupted files from a virus infected USB.

Steps to Recover Files form Infected USB

Note: There is no need of any third party software.

Step 1: Attach your infected USB/MMC with your virus free Computer
Step 2: 

(For Windows 7/8 users)

• Goto Computer > USB Drive
• Press "Shift" and while holding Shift Right Click on White area in USB Drive window
• From menu select Open command window here (Goto Step 3)

(For Windows XP users)

• Press Windows Key + R >Type cmd and hit Enter
• Command Prompt will open
• Type cd F:\ and Enter (F is your USB Drive Letter)

Step 3: Type following code and press Enter

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

Your files should be appear now in USB. If there is folder named _Open, you may find more files inside it.
If you have any doubt mention in comments!!!

This Tricks may not be work in all cases and It recovers files only infected by Virus not those files manually deleted.