Computer Showing File Not Found in Pen Drive, How Can I Fix It? Pen drives or USB flash drives are very useful portable devices to transfer data between PCs and Laptops. However, sometimes these drives can harm your computer by carrying viruses, malware and Trojan backdoors. These virus affected drives create an empty file or folder shortcut and make all your files and folders hidden. These shortcuts are not accessible and take you to nowhither while your existing folders are already hidden. You can remove the viruses from your Pen drive by scanning it with your antivirus software but this won't let you get back your files. In this article, you'll find the solution to retrieve your files from a virus affected USB drive.Lets start from the start Let assume that your Pen Drive is named as "GIRLIE" which is almost full with your stored stuff.

Now, when you open your folder it shows This folder is empty.

It means that your Pen Drive is affected by viruses as the files and folders in it are hidden.

If this happen and you want to retrieve your data then click Start > Search > cmd This will open the Command Prompt page for you. Now type the prompt as -

attrib h r s /s /d

Now go to your Pen Drive folder to note down the drive. Here, the drive of GIRLIE is H

Now add h:\*.* after attrib h r s /s /d

Now you are all set to access your hidden files and folders. Just open your Pen Drive folder and check all your files are back to visible.

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