3 Ways to Recover Files from USB Pen Drive Infected by Shortcut Virus

Pen drive shortcut virus is very common among windows users. Few days back I copied files from my friend’s pc to pen drive. When I inserted the pen drive in my pc then nothing was displayed except a shortcut. I checked the pen drive properties and found that it was using some space. It means the files are there but I was unable to access due the shortcut virus. I searched on internet and luckily found solution for this problem and successful recovered my files.

Below I am sharing all those possible solutions for this problem.

How to Recover Files from USB Pen Drive Infected by Shortcut Virus

Method 1:

It is one of the quickest methods to recover files.

Open your USB drive and type * in the search box at top right corner. This will display all the files present in the pen drive. You can also search for a particular file by its name. Now you can easily copy the files that you want.

Method 2:

1. Open Command Prompt and type following command.
attrib -h -r -s /s /d G:\*.*

2. Here G is the drive letter. Just replace it with your usb drive letter.

3. Now press enter to execute the command.



4. Open your usb drive, there you can see a folder without any name as shown in below image. It contains all the files.

Method 3:

You can also use some data recovery software to recover your files. EaseUS data recovery software is best among all. You can download it from below link.

Download: http://www.easeus.com/datarecoverywizard/free-data-recovery-software.htm

I hope this article helped you. Comment below if you are facing any problem.