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Recover hidden data from external hard disk

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Aman - May 5, 2011 at 12:30 AM
 nanaa - Jun 21, 2017 at 12:59 PM
Hello,



Hello,
I have so many movies, files, folders & musics in my external hard disk . Due to some virus or something I don't know when I opened the external hard disk I can't see some folders inside it, but if I wrote at the top at the search bar the folder name or the movie name which are in inside the hard disk I can find the folder . So please if you can tell me what is the problem .
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Anonymous User
May 5, 2011 at 03:46 AM
Hello,

Try this 1.

May be the files are in hidden mode.

Click on "Start" -->Run-->type cmd and click on OK.

Here I assume your external hard drive as G:

Enter this command.

attrib -h -r -s /s /d g:\*.*

You can copy the above command --> Right-click in the Command Prompt and

paste it.

Note : Don't forget to replace the letter g with your external hard drive letter.

Now press "Enter".

Now check for your files in external hard drive.

Good Luck.
Hari
May 16, 2011 at 10:14 PM
thanx man ...i was worried abt my ...collection of colllege pics, family pics, and many more ...it was a big setback...when I was unable to retrieve my data...but...................by ur simple command of DOS I got all of it ..........thanx once again.....tc.....
Anonymous User
May 17, 2011 at 02:24 AM
All the pleasure was mine Hari!

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