Remove - Hidden Property

[Joey_R]

Hi All,

I have a major problem - My USB flash disk was infected with a nasty virus. I managed to delete the virus but now - all the folders have a hidden property attached and therefore are not visible. Please help...I have changed my folder options to show all files but still I am unable to view them.

Regards
Jo

 

[random_noise]

If you know the names of the folders you could use a command prompt to get them back using the attrib command

For example if the drive letter is K:

Open command prompt (start > Run type "cmd" (no quotes))

change to the K: drive by typing K: & pressing enter

you can then remove the hidden propety for a folder by typing

attrib FOLDERNAME -h

replace FOLDERNAME with the name of your folder as appropriate

Note you will probably need to have administrator access for this to work

I'm sure there are also commercial programs which let you view hidden folders etc.

Edit: see here as well if your 'View hidden files & folders' isnt working right
http://technize.com/2007/05/13/show-hidden-files-and-folders-not-working/