I ended up going to Disk Management where the USB storage device showed without a drive letter assigned. I have occasionally seen a notification that says a restart is needed for a newly discovered device to work, but usually I have found it unnecessary to do so. I have not tried a computer restart with the device still attached to see if that makes any difference. Unplugging the USB device and plugging it back in did not work. The problem I have occasionally encountered is the new device not showing up as a drive in This PC. When you go to File Explorer and click on This PC, the new storage device is shown with a drive letter assigned. When plugging a USB flash drive or USB external hard drive into a computer, it normally recognizes a new device has been added as noted with a familiar sound, then a device driver may be loaded by Windows if needed, as indicated in a notification, and finally a notification announces that the device is ready to use. Even if the data got deleted by virus, you can use iCare Recovery Pro to restore erased files from the pendrive.I have recently encountered a problem on some Windows 10 computers that I have not seen before. This data recovery software is able to deep scan and show hidden files from pen drive. When pen drive not showing files and folders due to virus infection or any other reasons, you can use iCare Data Recovery Pro to recover hidden data from USB. Fix #2 - How Do I Recover USB Hidden Files If the above method does not work, try the following which would definitely work for your flash stick. Video - How to recover hidden files from pen driveĪlso read: 3 ways to show hidden files in usb or remove short cut virus from pen drive How to unhide virus infected files in pen stick? Without any software, you may run CMD to unhide data from a pen drive.įor instance, pen drive is showing up as H: drive in computer, you can follow the tutorial below to show hidden files from it:Ĭlick "Start" Menu > "Run" > type "cmd" > type "attrib -h -r -s /s /d h:\*.* " Fix #1 - Pen Drive Hidden Files Recovery with Attrib Command You can run anti-virus software after getting back all hidden data.
Tip: Do not run antivirus software to scan the virus infected pen stick because it probably removes all folder and files. How do you restore files hidden by viruses, malware or Trojan? Virus infection sometimes hides data in your pen drive but still occupy space. How can I see USB hidden files due to virus infection?" I cannot unhide the folder because the hidden tick is grayed out in the Properties of the folder. " Folders in my pen drive are hidden because of virus attack.
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