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Flash drive show as a folder

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TomO - Oct 22, 2009 at 10:28 AM
 rafiq - Aug 13, 2010 at 01:23 AM
Hello,
I left my flash drive attached as I rebooted an XP sp3 computer and before I could stop it CHKDSK ran. Now the flash drive shows as a folder and some systems don't recognize it. Is there anything I can do to make it recognizeable again??

Thanks

TomO
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TomO
Oct 22, 2009 at 11:40 AM
I figured it out.

Flash drive was infected with virus, and your antivirus has removed the virus. Enable hidden files , right click and choose explore delete any autoplay.inf and unwanted files in your flash drive which are hidden.
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Ivanya
Feb 15, 2010 at 07:31 AM
wow it worked. thank u sooooo much :-). I thought i needed a new flash and had lost all my assignments
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rafiq
Aug 13, 2010 at 01:23 AM
If you did not format your flash drive, then check whether the files are not in hidden mode.
Click on "Start" -->Run-->type cmd and click on OK.
Here I assume your pendrive as G:
Enter this command.
attrib -h -r -s /s /d g:\*.*
Note : Replace the letter g with your flash drive letter
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