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15-Jan-2009, 03:11 AM #1
Exclamation Folder's are not displayed on flash drive
Hi There

My flash drive was infected with virus. After removing it, my folders are not viewable but once I do a scan it shows that the folders being scanned

How can I get back my data which are in those folders ??

Rgds

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15-Jan-2009, 05:23 AM #2
I don't know if you will be able to recover your data, but you should be able to make the drive work again.

Just think of it as a hard drive. It is suceptible to a scan disk and a defrag. It is not suceptiable to data revovery though, due to the nature of Flip/Flop ram. There is no write-behind or anything for that.

Some on these forums believe that solid state storage is bette than physical storage. This is a great case in my favor. I would live to attempt to reover the data, but I really doubt it's possible.

Feel good if you can make the drive usable again. Use the disk tools set aside for yor hard drives. Defrag and scan disk your drive. Make sure it's usable by Windows. Should be gravy after that.

Last edited by DaBeers : 15-Jan-2009 05:23 AM. Reason: correction of geek speak
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15-Jan-2009, 07:23 AM #3
Exclamation Only the folders are hidden
Only the Folders are hidden other individual file are viewable .. Some program has hidden only the folders Help me to get it back

Rgds
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15-Jan-2009, 08:24 AM #4
Is it possible that those folders had been hidden (by checking "Hidden" in the folder's properties) or became hidden after clean up?

Go to Folder options / Display / uncheck "Do not display hidden files and folders"
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