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Saturday, August 31, 2013

How to repair your pen drive when all folders change into shortcut

Ever have you wonder the files you copy on your pen drive turns to be a short cut  on your windows system.?? 
 This is because of the autorun.inf virus It is actually not an virus but can be a terribly devastating when one failed to remove it.It create a whole lot more of ending which caused the files in the pen drive failed to open.If you are facing the same problem don't get panic.Because the files you copied still remain on pen drive and it is hidden.Also you can't view the files even when you enable show hidden file and folders option on settings.But you may open the file when you click on shortcut created also this doesn't affect your file as it just hide the file creating shortcut.

This can be resolved by simple steps :
start > cmd  > type your pen drive path (say g: or h:)
Enter this command  : attrib -h -r -s /s /d g:\*.* 

Thus you are done.
Back up your files.Format your pen drive and use it..


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