Hard drive is showing my folders as shortcuts

i have a flash drive and an external hard drive with the same issue, folders are shown as shortcuts, i ran an antivirus and it erased the virus on both of them but the problem remained, for the flash drive i tried previous answers to this problem which is download the "autorun exterminator" open run and type cmd and enter the comand "attrib -h -r -s /s /d g:\*.* " it worked with the flash drive but not on my harddrive, hard drive has the letter "f:" i changed it and when i tried it a bunch of text appeared on the black screen everything saying a folder name followed by: "acces denied" any help will be appreciated