Recover Files From Shortcut Virus
How to fix file folders become shortcuts & recover data in folders that turned into shortcutsAll the folder in my pendrive become shortcut due to virus, how can I fix it and restore data? All my files and folders on my flash drive changed to shortcuts, how to get my files back?Sounds similar? It's a common problem for removable drive such as external hard disk, USB flash drive, memory stick, pen drive and memory card turns into shortcut and files on the drive are not accessiable.So why this happens and how we can fix it?
Most of the time it's because that the external media drive is infected by virus trojans or worms like AUTORUN, QWERT, BUOUFO. To fix it, you need to kill the virus first.Method 1: The virus may hide the files and folders, so you got to unhide them.Step 1. Run commandIf you use Windows XP, yu can go to 'Start' - Run -type 'cmd' and click OK button.If you use Windows Vista, 7 or Windows 8, Windows 10, press and hold keyboard key 'Win' and the R, you will see run dialog pops, then type 'cmd' and click OK button.Step 2. In command window, enter attrib -h -r -s /s /d H:. Take note that we assume the removeable drive is H:, if it's other drive letter, please change accordingly. If it's G:, then the commend will be attrib -h -r -s /s /d G:. Press 'Return' keyboard key to run the commend.If virus hides the files and folder, now you should be able to see them.
If not, do not worry. You can kill the virus with some good antivirus tools.Method 2: Kill virus with anti-virus programLaunch anti-virus program and do a full scan on the external drive. Kill the virus and trojans if found any. After virus cleaning, check again the files and folders in the external media again. Good if you are able to see them. If problem still exists, you will have to use special data recovery program.Method 3: Recover files with data recovery programConnect the external media to computer, and then.Step 1.
Install and launch data recovery software, and then select the external media drive, then hit 'Next' to scan for lost files.Step 2. List of lost files will be shown in result page.
Select files you want to recover and click 'Recover' to recover those files.Step 3. Can not find lost files? Do not worry. In Computer explorer, right click the drive, and then choose 'quick format' in popup menu. Then follow step 1 and 2 again to recover lost photos, videos, documents such as Microsoft Word docx files, Powerpoint Presentation ppt files, Microsoft Excel files, pdf, and folders, musc files.Download Data Recovery software and recover lost files now before it's too lateYou can recover your deleted files worldwild as you can do it by yourself on your computer. So you do not need to go to data recovery centres, looking for data recovery services from specialists.
“Hello guys, I have lost few important files from my USB pen drive as it got affected by virus. When I connected my pen drive it showed all files and folders present in that drive but were displayed as Shortcut and no file accessible from it. Now, is it possible to recover data from USB drive affected with shortcut virus? Camtasia studio 9 key only. If yes, then can anyone suggest me good recovery method?”Viruses are the most dreadful programs that alter data on storage devices making it corrupt and inaccessible.
Shortcut virus like Trojan horse generic32.tnu will either cause inaccessibility of files or makes them hidden from Windows Explorer. As pen drive is the most convenient way of transferring data from one system to another, it is very prone to virus infection.How does a USB pen drive get infected by viruses?USB flash drive usually gets affected by malicious malware when it is connected to virus infected system to transfer files to/from pen drive. Even if the system is free from malicious spyware; USB drive connected to it can get virus infected when user browse and open suspicious sites in internet. USB flash drive when affected by harmful viruses will not get initialized on system. Other times, pen drive will get detected normally but will show no data present in it as files will be hidden. In rest of the cases, files will be marked as shortcut and such files cannot be opened / accessed at any cost. However, data will be safe in these scenarios.How to resolve shortcut virus infected USB drive?The best employed method to recover data from shortcut virus affected USB drive is given here.
After connecting your USB drive, Open Run command prompt and type this command, attrib –h –r –s g:. /s /d along with the spaces. Letter ‘g’ specifies the drive letter of USB flash drive connected on system. By pressing enter, you will see files in accessible state on USB drive. Copy-paste the files to any other location on system drive. If this doesn’t work, then the last option left is to use third party data recovery tool which will help to understand and to safeguard data.Software for recovering data from shortcut virus infected USB drive:Yodot Hard Drive Recovery tool is the excellent option to retrieve inaccessible and lost data from malware infected USB flash drive. This tool brilliantly recovers each and every file from pen drive / thumb drive that is not getting recognized or not working on any Windows computer.
It can restore files like Word documents, text, Notepad, Excel files, PowerPoint files, applications, PDFs, folders, archives, photos, videos, music files, etc. Without any difficulty. This program can which is virus infected, not recognized / detected, failed, not working, crashed or turned unreadable for number of causes. This file retrieval tool can be used for recovering files lost or deleted from USB flash drives manufactured by HP, SanDisk, Transcend, iBall, Emtec, Lexar, Toshiba, Adata, Corsair, Kingston and many other brands. Moreover, it serves to be the best file recovery program to regain deleted and lost files from system hard disk, portable hard drive, SSD, FireWire drive, etc. Formatted with FAT32, FAT16, NTFS, NTFS5, ExFAT and ReFS file systems.
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This tool can be utilized on Windows PCs and laptops running with Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 and 2003 operating systems.